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Handling and Identifying SSL Handshake errors

SSL handshake errors can occur due to various reasons such as Self Signed certificate, unavailability of protocol or cipher suite requested by client or server, etc.  Recently I faced this issue where I was connecting to third party server using HttpClient library.  Here’s what I did to identify the …

Java Windows Shutdown Utility v0.3

I had developed this utility on swing back in 2009. This utility can be used to schedule shutdown, lock, sleep, hibernate, reboot and log off operations in windows.

Earlier this utility was based on external dependencies and due to this dependency the utility was not working anymore . Now I have …

Tracing a J2EE application in Database

To trace an existing J2EE application (or a legacy application,legacy here means the ones still not using CDI) at database layer is not easy, especially if that application does not have any reference to the user whom you want to trace. A cumbersome way would be to pass the …

Logging with SLF4J and logback

SLF4J(Simple logging facade for JAVA) is a abstraction layer or facade for different logging frameworks like log4j,Logback etc which allows you to plugin the desired logging framework at deployment time. Also logback is a framework that implements the SLF4j api so it allows easy switching between different logging …