Using Spring to call jmx bean on JBoss7 / EAP 6

Recently I had to create a sample project showing how to call a JMX Bean exposed by one application by other one. It seems so easy... as usual. But with new JBoss 7 / EAP6 and their new remoting-jmx protocol I struggled a bit. So here how it should look like

Filtering java sources with maven to use with Gin

From time to time I get a need to use maven filtering capabilities to change properties depending on the maven build profile. It's nice thing I must admit. Recently, I also needed to do filtering on java source code (in Gin module to bind different constant to be injected to my GWT view), and it seems that standard filtering is not capable of doing it. So here is what I did...

Updating xml file in war/ear

Recently I needed to update some xml files inside war and ear archives. They were xml descriptors, so I did it with Groovy because of its great xml support.

Spring batch in memory and OutOfMemoryError

Some time ago I started to use Spring batch for various processing of data. While it was ok for simple usage, when I pushed large file for processing into my system it died with OutOfMemoryError.
So I took the heap dump, analyzed it, and saw some Spring Batch classes that were taking huge amount of my heap.