Articles Tagged ‘cache’

Creating In-Memory File Systems with Google’s Jimfs

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Sometimes when writing an application we might consider using an in-memory file system to speed up data access or to create some kind of cache.

There are different libraries to help us here but one looks especially promising for me because it supports almost every functionality of the Java NIO File APIs added in Java 7 – from creating, reading, deleting files and directory to handling symbolic and hard links or watching directory changes with a WatchService.

In the following short tutorial, I’d like to demonstrate how to setup an in-memory file system within a few minutes and how to access directories and files stored in this file system.

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Java Persistence API: Controlling the Second-Level-Cache

Monday, April 21st, 2014

Using the Java Persistence API and a decent persistence provider allows us to configure and fine-tune when and how the second level cache is used in our application.

In the following short examples, we’re going to demonstrate those features written as JUnit test cases and running on a H2 in-memory database.

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