Core Java
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Native Java Packaging with NetBeans 7.4
One of the new features of NetBeans 7.4 that made the “NetBeans 74 NewAndNoteworthy” page is “Native Packaging,” which is…
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3 ways of handling exceptions in JUnit. Which one to choose?
In JUnit there are 3 popular ways of handling exceptions in your test code: try-catch idiom With JUnit rule With…
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Java: Schedule a job to run on a time interval
Recently I’ve spent some time building a set of tests around rolling upgrades between Neo4j versions and as part of…
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A MindMap for Java Developer Interviews
Over the years I have been a panelist in many of the interviews for Java Developers. I have previously written a post…
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Java VM – Beware of the YoungGen space
As you may have seen from our previous performance oriented articles, a healthy JVM is one of the most important…
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What Garbage Collector are you using?
Our research labs are humming at full speed. With the recent injection of capital, we can only warrant that the…
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Using serialization to find dirty fields in an object
Say you are developing a framework to auto-save objects into a database. You need to detect changes made between two…
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Why we shouldn’t use more threads than we need to
Overview There is a common argument that because we have lots of cores, and will have even more in the…
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Lambdas for Fluent and Stable APIs
A few weeks ago I wrote an introduction on Java 8 lambdas. In this introduction I explained what a lambda…
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