Month: March 2013

Locking the trunk in subversion

We had a need to lock the trunk to ensure no changes were made during a code freeze. In subversion, the “trunk” has no significance outside of industry accepted standards. As such, what follows will work on any directory. This…

OutOfMemory error in one classloader

I thought this was interesting. If an OutOfMemory error (not exception, there is a difference) is thrown in one classloader when multiple class loaders are in use, it won’t cause the entire JVM to abort as it will when it…