When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods. For example, Log4j‘s Logger provides methods such as ...

Groovy 1.8 was recently released with a long list of new features. I focus on one of these new features, logger injection via new AST Transformations, in this post. Groovy 1.8 provides AST ...

In the last article, we showed how you can use JConsole to manage a local application or just peer into the JVM for a view of how it is working. Useful as this is in development, out in the field, the ...