Core Java
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Java7 – A look back
I started writing a blog post on what’s new in the upcoming Java8 release, and thought I would start by…
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When and how to use a ThreadLocal
As our readers might already have guessed, I deal with memory leaks on a daily basis. A particular type of…
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Java: a Local Minimum language-wise
I wrote hundreds of thousands of lines of code in Java between 1996 and 2002. I wrote web frameworks, spreadsheets,…
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Java8
Java8 isn’t scheduled for for release until March 2014, but early release versions have been available for a while. Some…
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If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy
The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because…
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Add Some Entropy to Your JVM
Being able to generate true random numbers depends on the entropy in your system. Some claim, that this can be…
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Too Many Parameters in Java Methods, Part 5: Method Naming
In my previous post (Part 4 of my series on dealing with too many parameters in Java methods), I looked…
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Java User Defined Types (UDT) in Java DB
Java DB is a relational database management system that is based on the Java programming language and SQL. This is…
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1000 Responses to Java Is Not Dying
When 1000 comments are posted on an editorial, it’s worth considering what is being said. My editorial last week, ”…
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