List/Grid Tag Archives: Java 7
Minor Gotchas from migration to Java 7
After several years of pushing, we are finally starting to pull our application out of the dark ages in terms of software levels and one of those steps is upgrading our Java version ...
Java 7 Update 21 Security Improvements in Detail
Oracle released three updates to Java yesterday. It is important to note that they contain several security related changes. The majority of those changes have been announced since ...
JavaFX 2 XYCharts and Java 7 Features
One of my favorite features of JavaFX 2 is the standard charts it provides in its javafx.scene.chart package. This package provides several different types of charts out-of-the-box. ...
Changes to String.substring in Java 7
It is common knowledge that Java optimizes the substring operation for the case where you generate a lot of substrings of the same source string. It does this by using the (value, offset, ...
Wordcounter, Counting Words in Java with Lambdas and Fork/Join
These days I released Wordcounter, a Java library and command-line utility for counting words in text files and performing analysis on the word counts that makes heavy use of functional ...
Java 7: File Filtering using NIO.2 – Part 3
Hello all. This is Part 3 of the File Filtering using NIO.2 series. For those of you who haven’t read Part 1 or Part 2, here’s a recap. NIO.2 is a new API for I/O operations ...
Java 7: File Filtering using NIO.2 – Part 2
Hello all. This is Part 2 of the File Filtering using NIO.2 series. For those of you who haven’t read Part 1, here’s a recap. NIO.2 is a new API for I/O operations included ...
Java 7: File Filtering using NIO.2 – Part 1
NIO.2 is a new API for I/O operations included in the JDK since Java 7. With this new API, you can perform the same operations performed with java.io plus a lot of great functionalities ...
Project Jigsaw: The Consequences of Deferring
Mr. Mark Reinhold has announced in July 2012 that they were planning to withdraw Project Jigsaw from Java 8 because Jigsaw would delay its release, planned for September 2013 (One ...
Java 7: HashMap vs ConcurrentHashMap
As you may have seen from my past performance related articles and HashMap case studies, Java thread safety problems can bring down your Java EE application and the Java EE container ...
