How to setup JNDI Database Connection pool in Tomcat - Spring Tutorial Example

Setting the JNDI Database Connection pool in Spring and Tomcat is pretty easy. Tomcat server documentation gives enough information on how to setup connection pool in Tomcat 5, 6 or 7. Here we will use Tomcat 7 along with spring framework for creating a connection pool in Tomcat server and accessing them in Spring using JNDI code. In our last article, we have seen how to setup database connection pool in Spring for core Java application which doesn't run on a web server or application server and doesn't have managed J2EE container. but if you are developing a web application than its better to use server managed connection pool and access them using JNDI. Spring configuration will be generic and just based on JNDI name of Datasource so it will work on any J2EE Server e.g. Glassfish, WebLogic, JBoss or WebSphere until JNDI name is same. 

Why become a Certified Java Programmer? Does Oracle Certified Professional Earn more?

I have seen many Java programmers in doubt whether to go for Java certifications or not? Whether getting Java certified will help them to earn a better salary? or after becoming Java certified from Oracle will help them to get a Job. In this article, we will see what are the benefits of getting Java certified. I know higher income, better Job prospects, and a better chance of promotion is at the top of the benefits of becoming a certified Java professional, but this certification provides much more value than that. Apart from all those tangible benefits, the most important thing is that you learn Java better which help you everywhere like in your day job as well as on interviews.

2 Ways to Setup LDAP Active Directory Authentication in Java - Spring Security Example Tutorial

The LDAP authentication is one of the most popular authentication mechanism around the world for enterprise application and Active directory (an LDAP implementation by Microsoft for Windows) is another widely used LDAP server. In many projects, we need to authenticate against active directory using LDAP by credentials provided in the login screen. Sometimes this simple task gets tricky because of various issues faced during implementation and integration and no standard way of doing LDAP authentication in a Java web application. Even though Java provides LDAP support but in this article, I will mostly talk about spring security because of it's my preferred Java framework for authentication, authorization, and security related stuff.

Top 9 Java Programming Books - Best of lot, Must Read

These top Java programming books are some of the good books to learn Java and I would say some of them are simply best Java books ever published. Whenever a programmer starts learning Java programming language, the first question he asks is "Which book should I refer to learn Java?", or "What is the best book to learn Java for beginners?" or "Can you tell me some good books to learn Java?" .That itself says how important Java books are for programmers especially beginners.  Despite having so many free resources available in Java like tutorials, tips, blogs and code examples, Java books have their own place because of two reasons:

• They are written by programmers who are authority in subject
• They cover the subject with more details and explanation.

Amazon Prime Day 2018 - Great Opportunity to Buy Books and Gadgets for Programmers

Many of my friends and colleagues used to wait until November to buy books, gadgets, and other computer items to get the huge discount offered on Black Friday deals, but you don't need to. Amazon is bringing Black Friday to the summer with their annual Prime Day offers. The Amazon Prime day is nothing but a one-day (precisely one and half day) shopping extravaganza, where you will get huge discounts on thousands of Amazon products including books, games, gadgets, and other computer and electronics items. So, if you are looking to buy a new laptop, a new smartphone or want to track your fitness, you can buy Fitbit and other such gadgets at a much cheaper price on Amazon prime day.

Is "Java Concurrency in Practice" still valid in the era of Java 8 and 10?

One of my reader Shobhit asked this question on my blog post about 12 must-reads advanced Java books for intermediate programmers - part1. I really like the question and thought that many Java programmers might have the same doubt whenever someone recommends them to read Java Concurrency in Practice. When this book came first in 2006, Java world was still not sure of about new concurrency changes made in Java 1.5, I think the first big attempt to improve Java's built-in support for multi-threading and concurrency. Many Java programmers were even not aware of new tools introduced in the API e.g. CountDownLatch, CyclicBarrier, ConcurrentHashMap and much more. The book offered them the seamless introduction of those tools and how they can use them to write high-performance concurrent Java applications.