Category: Java

Watch out for bad logging: Apache Commons Logging

If you (or your team) use Apache Commons Logging as a logging framework, you may encounter an incorrect way how you log your exceptions (regardless of the logging level – WARN, ERROR, …). It looks like this: try { … some code … } catch (Exception e) { log.error(e); } // or try { … […]

How-to: Obtain Thread Dump and Heap Dump on JBoss/WildFly

Sometimes you need to analyze unexpected behavior on application server. Out of memory, EJB pool exhaustion or deadlock are one of many problems with which you can often met. And not always the server log will help you. When log is empty, but application shows signs of errors (is slow or maybe even stuck) you […]