When running Spring Batch in production it’s always good to keep an eye on performance. And in pre-production it’s helpful to have a tool that points to the weak spots. One option you have is to use Application Performance Management (APM) tools, and one of them is AppDynamics. In this post I describe how you need to configure AppDynamics to efficiently monitor Spring Batch jobs.
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Monitoring Spring Batch with AppDynamics
category: Java, Performance, Spring | 
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This post is written on April 28, 2013 by Tobias Flohre
Again! – 10 Tips on Java Debugging with Eclipse
You probably know some post of this kind. “n things about debugging” is a popular topic. For a good reason! I guess that I spent about 1 hour per day debugging my applications. That’s quite a lot time. This makes it even more important to know all the handy features, that makes your life easier and helps you to safe some time. And it justifies another post on this topic!
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This post is written on April 8, 2013 by Daniel Reuter
Quick tip: automatically applying Liquibase changesets to HSQL
This is a quick tip for usage of Liquibase with HSQL. You may use the former tool for relational database schema migrations and the latter as in-memory database on the developers’ machines. Today, with feature branches and project customisation, i.e. changes that are specific for a single customer, you may have to shutdown the database, restart and reapply the migrations on a regular basis. Of course, this is a task that can be automated!
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This post is written on April 5, 2013 by Ben Ripkens
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