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Java 8 introduced default methods in interfaces. This post describes what they are, and how they can change the design of APIs. A nominal design Earlier, in Java, interfaces could only have contracts – method signatures with no implementation. In order to add some implementation, a class was required, whether abstract or not. Hence, traditional API design then followed this hierarchy: The root interface defines the ...

Let’s talk about connection pools. I claim that: Default settings of most popular connection pools are poor! For you, it means: Go review your connection pool settings. You might have a problem if you rely on default settings. You may have memory leaks and unresponsive application (even if load is not high at all). Below I will show some of ...

Mobile technology is one of the most disruptive innovations in the world today. Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, are the operating systems used primarily in mobile technology, such as smart-phones and tablets. For almost two decades, Java was the prime language to build Android applications. This language was ruling the world of Android until the birth of a new language Kotlin. A ...

Java Flight Recorder (JFR) used to be a commercial add-on of the Oracle JDK. As it’s been open sourced recently along with Java Mission Control, everyone using OpenJDK 11 can now troubleshoot their Java apps with this excellent tool for free of charge. JFR, being a proprietary solution formerly, might be lesser known for those relying on previous versions of ...

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In my previous article from this series we looked in to details that determine how your integration becomes the key to transforming your customer experience.       It started with laying out the process of how I’ve approached the use case by researching successful customer portfolio solutions as the basis for a generic architectural blueprint. Now it’s time to cover ...

In part 1 we have learned how to test data lineage info collection with Spline from a Spark shell. The same can be done in any Scala or Java Spark application. The same dependencies for the Spark shell need to be registered in your build tool of choice (Maven, Gradle or sbt): groupId: za.co.absa.spline artifactId: spline-core version: 0.3.5 groupId: za.co.absa.spline artifactId: spline-persistence-mongo ...

It has been proposed that raw string literals (preview) be dropped from JDK 12 (which enters Rampdown Phase One on December 13). Brian Goetz has written a detailed description of the motivations for dropping this preview feature (JEP 326). There is also discussion on this on the Java subreddit. In the post “JSR 386 (Java SE 12) JEP Propose to ...

If you are building your Java project using Maven, maybe in Eclipse or from the command prompt by running mvn install and your build is failing with an error like “invalid target release: 1.7” or “invalid target release: 1.8” then you have come to the right place. In this article, I’ll show you the reason why this error occurs and how you can ...