Spartan Java

Ever since the very first time I used a properties file in Java I’ve wanted to be able to reload it upon a sysadmin request or some other circumstance without having to reload the whole application, reset the application server or use some dark proprietary Sun APIs. Well, finally in Java 1.6 we can do it!!
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In our first installment we reviewed the front-end part of developing a paginated list using AJAX and Java. Now we will dive into the back-end of our pagination mechanism.
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There are plenty of times when you need a cache for Java objects in your code. A very easy to use and simple implementation of a cache is provided with Apache ORO, wisely called CacheFIFO (http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/api/org/apache/oro/util/CacheFIFO.html).
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