Core Java
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If BigDecimal is the answer, it must have been a strange question
Overview Many developers have determined that BigDecimal is the only way to deal with money. Often they site that by…
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Gearing up for JavaOne 2014 !
Hold that thought! Yeah…I wish I was presenting at Java One 2014 – but I am only worthy of doing…
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Getting Started with Gradle: Dependency Management
It is challenging, if not impossible, to create real life applications which don’t have any external dependencies. That is why…
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Making operations on volatile fields atomic
Overview The expected behaviour for volatile fields is that they should behave in a multi-threaded application the same as they…
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Java SE 8 new features tour: Functional programming with Lambda Expression
This article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series will deep dive into understanding Lambda expressions. I will…
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Getting an Infinite List of Primes in Java
A common problem is to determine the prime factorization of a number. The brute force approach is trial division (Wikipedia,…
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Parsing an Excel File into JavaBeans using jXLS
This post shows how you can use jXLS to parse an Excel file into a list of JavaBeans. Here is…
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Adding @atomic operations to Java
Overview How might atomic operations work in Java, and is there a current alternative in OpenJDK/Hotspot it could translate to.…
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How to use CopyOnWriteArraySet in Java with Example
CopyOnWriteArraySet is little brother of CopyOnWriteArrayList class. These are special purpose collection classes which was added on JDK 1.5, along…
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