autolink-java framework

I have been looking for a good and simple "Java library to extract links (URLs, email addresses) from plain text". I was searching on Github and found this little gem called autolink-java by Robin Stocker (robinst).

This library was used in a proof-of-concept (POC) I was working on at work. We needed to be able to extract all of the links from a page, and display them. This includes hyperlinks and email addresses. This little gem met the bill, and was quick to parse the text file I used.

The example requires the following maven dependencies:
This framework extracted a list of URLs from a file that looks like this:
As you can see, it generates a nice extraction of the URLs from the surrounding text. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

The project has been uploaded to Bitbucket and can be found here: autolink-java-extractor.

Log4j2 java.util.logging (JUL) Adapter Example

Introduction

I was looking for an example of how to implement the java.util.logging (JUL) adapter in a project. This would almost seem to be a no brainer of an idea with lots of examples of how to do it. Alas, I didn't find much of anything. So I thought I would share some wisdom of how to implement the JUL Adapter.

Implementation

You need to tell the application to use the JUL adapter. There are two easy ways to accomplish this.

1. The easiest is to pass a VM option to the application: -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.LogManager
2. Alternatively, you can use a static initializer in your class. This is important because the value needs to be set before the logger is called.

The code for the project can be found on GitHub here: log4j2-jul-example

Code