Articles for October, 2017

Snippet: Java Mission Control (JMC) and Flight Recorder (JFR)

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

The Java Mission Control and the Java Flight Recorder allow us to capture run-time information from our Java applications without much overhead and aggregate profiling information.

I have written down the commands that I’m using the most when profiling a Java application with this tool chain in the following article.

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Detecting Vulnerable Dependencies with Maven and the OWASP Dependency Check Plugin

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017

On the one hand adding dependencies to a project is easy, on the other hand securing a project and checking for vulnerable dependencies is way harder.

The OWASP dependency check plugin for Maven allows us to scan our project’s dependencies for know vulnerabilities.

I will demonstrate its usage in the following short example.

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Microbenchmarks with JMH / Java Microbenchmark Harness

Monday, October 2nd, 2017

Writing microbenchmarks for parts of our applications is not always easy – especially when the internals of the virtual machine, the just-in-time-compiler and such things are coming into effect.

Java Microbenchmark Harness is a tool that takes care of creating JVM warmup-cycles, handling benchmark-input-parameters and running benchmarks as isolated processes etc.

Now following a few short examples for writing microbenchmarks with JMH.
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