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RetriableTask — a generic wrapper for retrying operations in Java

A couple of times recently I’ve needed to write methods that retry up to n times if an error occurs, and surprisingly, couldn’t find any standard patterns to accomplish this on the web. So I wrote my own. All comments appreciated (there may well be massive holes in my logic but it works so far).

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2009 05 20 Andrew Research
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IteratorReader — streaming character data from an iterator

Recently when plugging two components of a high-throughput web service together, I ran into a snag. One component (a data repository) exposes an Iterator for pulling XML-formatted records out of it one by one. The other (for serving SOAP response documents) needed, ideally, something that could be wrapped in a StreamSource — i.e. an InputStream [...]

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2009 01 29 Andrew Research Comments (18)