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Aug 07 / 2014
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Snippet 0x05: Windows .bat: Checking if process is running by PID file

Batch (.bat) files are an MS-DOS legacy technology and I don’t know a single person who loves writing them — and yet, to this day, many people have to do it. In order to run Java programs, start daemons or check if a process is running, batch files have to be used. For my open source file sync tool Syncany, I had to do just that:

The Syncany daemon runs in the background and is started by a batch script. To check if the daemon is already running, the batch script needs to read a PID file and determine if a process with this PID is running.

Since it took me an enormeous amount of time to figure out how to do that (I am a Linux guy!), I wanted to share that little script in this code snippet.

Jun 22 / 2014
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Snippet 0x04: Run .sql-scripts from Java (on HSQLDB, Derby, MySQL, etc.)

Java is sometimes harder than it should be. Oftentimes, very easy things are made hard for no apparent reason. Running SQL scripts (.sql) from inside Java is one of those cases. I really expected this to be easy. And it should be, right? Simply take your JDBC connection and do connection.executeScript() or something. After all, a .sql-script is just a file with many statements.

Turns out there is no easy way to do it without writing some code yourself — at least not to my knowledge. Please enlighten me if there is. In the meantime, checkout my SqlRunner class — a class that reads SQL script files and executes the statements.

Jun 17 / 2014
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Snippet 0x03: Recursively watch folders on Java (using the Java 7 WatchService)

The “new” Java 7 WatchService provides a mechanism to easily monitor a single folder for file system events. Java uses the underlying OS mechanisms to realize that (inotifiy on Linux, and ReadDirectoryChanges* on Windows). What the WatchService cannot do, however, is monitor a folder recursively — meaning monitoring all sub-folders and register new folders if created. This tiny code snippet article shows you how.

Jun 14 / 2014
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Snippet 0x02: Getting the Java process PID and managing PID files (Linux/Windows)

To the best of my knowledge, Java doesn’t offer a good way to get the OS-dependent PID of its own process. Sure, there are libraries to do that — but do you really want to add a heavy library for this simple task? Well I didn’t. Syncany already has so many dependencies, I don’t want to introduce a new one just for this simple task.

Jun 14 / 2014
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Snippet 0x01: Undertow, an embeddable Java HTTP / WebSocket / REST server

Undertow is a lightweight HTTP and WebSocket server for Java. It’s super simple to set up and works with Java SE. I tried using it in my open source file sync tool Syncany and it works beautifully.

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Snippet 0x05: Windows .bat: Checking if process is running by PID file

Snippet 0x04: Run .sql-scripts from Java (on HSQLDB, Derby, MySQL, etc.)

Snippet 0x03: Recursively watch folders on Java (using the Java 7 WatchService)

Snippet 0x02: Getting the Java process PID and managing PID files (Linux/Windows)

Snippet 0x01: Undertow, an embeddable Java HTTP / WebSocket / REST server

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