Javadoc Documentation Inheritance
Documentation inheritance? It sounds like an idea from a person on drugs with a serious sleep deprivation. Never the less, it turns out in practice to... more »
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Scala Collections for the Easily Bored Part 1: A Tale of Two Flavors
One of the most obvious things to a Java developer first coming into Scala-land is the radically different Collections API included as part of the... more »
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On Returning To Java...
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Ow. The pain. After a month of a diet of Groovy, coming back to Java is painful. Interestingly, my Java coding style has now changed. Before you read... more »
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Class Bit Hackery In Java
One of the most elegant and clever bit twiddling routines ever written.
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A Better Static Approach for Utility Classes
When writing utility classes it is very easy to go down on the path of writing code that can never be changed later on because of static functions... more »
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XML Event in JDK6
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Java SE 6, added the new class XMLEvent in the package javax. xml. stream.events. This is the base event interface for handling markup events. Not... more »
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Goodbye Java Generics
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When generics first came out I was pretty excited. I had used templates quite extensively in C++, before I soured on C++. C++ templates are a great... more »
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Strings in switch statements
Apparently, with JDK 7 we will have Strings in switch statements. I got a SCPJ certification long time back, but if someone asks me to write a switch... more »
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Java Closures - The Fundamental Benefit
Avoiding redundant code is a basic programming instinct. Java closures make it easier to eliminate redundant code and avoid it altogether! All other... more »
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Java One Liner - Reading a Text File At Once
Is it a one liner, is it not?
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The Forgotten Argument for Closures in Java
The concurrency / parallelism argument
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Playing around with parallel maps in Scala
Over the last couple of days I have been hacking around with a few implementations of a parallel map in Scala.
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Static Typing with Less Keystrokes
Scala has a feature called type inference, which rose quite some discussion in the Java community, but all this does is save some typing, right? Don't... more »
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JSqueak - Smalltalk interpreter written in Java
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JSqueak (formerly known as Potato) is less than 5000 lines of code, available under the MIT licence. It runs the Mini2.1 image, which is included for... more »
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Shutdown Hooks in Java? How are they used?
Read the article to get a good understanding of Shutdown Hooks and their working in Java. What are Shutdown Hooks? When do they execute? How reliable... more »
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Java 5 Function Object Awesomeness
You don't see a lot of blog posts about how great function objects are in Java. It's pretty popular to hate on Java in this area. You're not really a... more »
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Is Java the new COBOL? Yes. What does that mean, exactly? (Part 1)
If you are software developer that mainly writes applications for the web; even if you aren't a Java/J2EE developer, you have probably heard the new... more »
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Doing it wrong: getters and setters
Every getter and setter in your code represents a failure to encapsulate and creates unnecessary coupling. A profusion of getters and setters (also... more »
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Fun with Java: Biomorphs and Artificial Life
This article shows you how to write programs that model the selective breeding process, sometimes referred to as artificial selection. This is as... more »
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Java Concurrency: Read / Write Locks
Java 5 comes with read / write lock implementations in the java.util.concurrent package. Even so, it may still be useful to know the theory behind... more »
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Troubleshooting Guide for Java SE 6 Desktop Technologies
This document is a guide to help troubleshoot problems that might arise with applications that are deployed using the Sun Microsystems Inc. release of... more »
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Sun Strategy on JavaFX, ready to take Silverlight
This Post discuss about JavaFX and its future and what would be its contributions to RIA ( Rich Internet Application )
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Java Concurrency - Introduction
Java was one of the first languages to make multithreading easily available to developers. Java had multithreading capabilities from the very... more »
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Java Concurrency - Slipped Conditions
This text is no. 13 in a series on Java Concurrency. It explains the problem of slipped conditions, how it may occur in Java, and shows a few hints to... more »
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Java to Scala - Smaller Inheritance hierarchies with Structural Typing
Structural typing can be one way to reduce your inheritance hierarchy. This feature in Scala can address one of the drawbacks of Java typing.
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