How to force any Java program to use HTTP proxy

February 10th, 2007 CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server.

August 25th, 2006 Wget is a super-useful utility to download pages and automate all types of web related tasks. It works for HTTP as well as FTP URL's.

March 26th, 2009 This small trick will tell you how you can compile a java source file from another java file on the go. You do not need to run it on a different page and compile it there and then get back to this program.

January 9th, 2006 I informed in my previous post that I have decided to shun all java frameworks for my current project and develop with basic Java / J2SE components instead. Here is a synopsis of my journey as it is unfolding.

August 21st, 2005 When FireFox is used through AnalogX Proxy (a popular free proxy server) a strange error persistently happens if you have too many browser windows open. All of your requests get strangely redirected to the last opened site.

January 21st, 2008 Google had a well known proxy facility. You could use an url like http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=http://blog.taragana.com to access http://blog.taragana.com using Google as proxy.

July 21st, 2006 dnsjava is a popular implementation of DNS in Java. It supports all defined record types (including the DNSSEC types), and unknown types.

July 11th, 2005 I have found Java Studio Creator to be very useful and worthwhile for JSF based development. Join the Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access program and download the new IDE for FREE through October 2005.

July 18th, 2005 You can use assertions to detect errors that may otherwise go unnoticed. Assertions contain Boolean expressions that define the correct state of your program at specific points in the program source code.

July 13th, 2006 As I informed earlier we made a major move to a new server in the last few days. All the websites have moved over.

June 18th, 2005 Java is a language of choice for millions of developers worldwide. In a series of articles I will show simple tips and techniques which make Java extremely powerful and yet simple to use.

January 9th, 2007 Security vendor Imperva has identified an access-control vulnerability in DWR, Java Open Source AJAX development framework (stable release 1.1.3 and 2.0), which it says an attacker can use to compromise a DWR based application which may in turn enable him to say break into back-end databases or servers or launch a denial-of-service-attack. On a positive note Imperva commented that DWR, AJAX Web application development framework, is "emerging as the lingua franca for building new generation Web 2.0 applications" :) Forceful Method Invocation Attacks The key issue is how DWR restricts access to not exposed class methods.

April 6th, 2009 JAKARTA - An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, killing all 24 people on board, news reports and officials said. The Fokker airplane was carrying 17 officers from the Indonesian Air Force's special force and seven crew when it crashed at about 12.30 p.m.

December 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.

August 26th, 2007 Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.