How to connect to MySQL with JDBC driver

  • 20 May 2016
  • ADM

How to connect to MySQL database with MySQL JDBC driver. Get a new connection using DriverManager class.


How to create Generic Object Pool in Java

  • 23 March 2016
  • ADM

In a application you can have resources that are limited or time consuming to create a new one. e.g. a connection to a database, a new thread. A solution is to create a the limited resource once and reuse it. To address this problem the object pool pattern was introduced. The object pool design will have the mechanism to create a new object to keep the objects and to destroy the objects if necessary.


How to get CPU cores in Java

  • 16 September 2020
  • ADM

A system may contain multiple physical CPUs (central processing unit), and can contain one or more cores (processors). Also, each core can have multiple threads, usually 2. (Hyper-threading Technology from Intel CPUs).