Spring Vs Vanilla JEE (e.g. Wildfly)

A good "battle" around this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519773

JBoss port conflict

Running more than one JBoss instance in the same machine leads to port conflict. You can solve this problem by running the second instance by adding this parameter :

-Djboss.service.binding.set=ports-01

See more: http://www.eeblog.org/index.php/jboss-run-2-instances-in-the-same-environment-and-avoid-port-conflicts/

How to encrypt your Maven password (for Nexus access)

http://www.objis.com/formation-java/tutoriel-maven-securite-login-mot-de-passe-security-settings-xml.html

Recovering MS SQLServer 2008 password sa

http://v-consult.be/2011/05/26/recover-sa-password-microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2/

Java Memo

Initialise a list:

Immutable

List<String> people = Arrays.asList("me", "you");

Mutable

ArrayList<String> people = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("me", "you"));

or use the double brace initialization:

ArrayList<String> people = new ArrayList<String>() {{
    add("Me");
    add("You");
}} 

Performance test tools

Gatling: http://gatling.io/

To benchmark HTTP servers:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html
 

First start of MySQL with Wamp

After checking the listening port in my.ini file, read this:
http://www.commentcamarche.net/faq/12341-phpmyadmin-1045-access-denied-for-user-root-localhost