"What is a mysterious field called modCount doing in the List Iterator classes? How can we efficiently handle iterating over collections when another thread may be updating the collection at the same time? Read on ..."
"Yet more proof that the engineers at Sun fully realized that optimizers such as HotSpot are sensitive to coding style and with that realization, built HotSpot with good coding practices in mind "
"what we want to do here is to use our transactional replicated cache to actually keep the cached entity beans in memory. This will greatly improve performance"
