Archive | June 12th, 2012

A simple Location and Weather mashup using Gaelyk Framework

June 12, 2012

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In our sample Gaelyk application here we stopped at just obtaining the location information. In this post lets update that application to fetch the Weather information as well. For the weather information we make use of the Weather Underground API which provides a lot of features like geolocation information, current weather conditions, forecast weather conditions [...]

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Simple introduction to Fork-Join Framework in Java 7

June 12, 2012

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Fork-Join Framework was added as part of Java 7 which makes use of the ExecutorService interface to distribute tasks to the worker threads in the thread pool. The difference in Fork-Join is that the ideal worker threads can steal queued subtasks from the other tasks and execute them. There are a few important classes you [...]