While browsing the Google news today about Sun laying off 6000 employees, Google has matched that item with actual “Sun” logo instead of Sun Microsystems logo. Google has some areas for improvement ah?
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CNN projected that Barack Obama will become the first African-American president of the United States. Congratulations Senator.
I got to know of saying “Never say never and never say always” from some source (which I don’t recall), which is all the more applicable in our fickle Java ecosystem.
I have been using Eclipse all this while and have defended religiously too. But going through the features/options NetBeans latest version 6.5 RC, makes [...]
SSL handshake_failure while doing Mutual Authentication
Published November 2nd, 2008 in All. 0 CommentsFriend of mine recently had one issue with SLS Mutual Authentication (aka Client Authentication) that server was failing with error “Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client!” and at client side it was throwing following error.
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:150)
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Not many might not have used, if not noticed about the Google Lucky search feature. Instead of clicking on Search button, if you click on “I’m Feeling Lucky”, Google would automatically redirect to the first result. This would be very useful many times, if you want to select the url from bookmarks or [...]
I think it is time to remember Microsoft’s antitrust suit because another one may be coming soon to Apple. Apple has been monopolizing the platform by blocking all applications which competes slightly with it getting passed through the gate. Apple should have confidence that if it has better product than others, people do [...]
When I moved to California from Jersey and getting ready to take the California Driver’s written test, I didn’t find good sample test papers to get the feel of the test or to evaluate myself to see where I stood. After the exam, I thought I will collect/create some sample test papers to it [...]
NullPointerException vs IllegalArgumentException
Published October 28th, 2008 in All and Java. 0 CommentsThere has been lots of discussion going on for a very long time weather to use NPE or IAE when a null is passed when a non-null object is expected as an method/constructor argument.
After developing java applications for quite sometime, I have observed that when one sees a NPE in the log file, it usually [...]
Wish everybody a very happy and safe Diwali festivities (also known as Deepavali in Karnataka).
I have been wanting to write some tutorial about Java Server Faces for easy on-ramping. I will be writing the tutorial in slow paced, simple steps which learners can be follow along as they try out. This post would be updated with links for all of these steps as and when they posted.
Step 1 [...]
