Core Java
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Effective Java – Method Common to All Objects
Methods Common to All Objects (Ch 3) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 3.…
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Importance of given-when-then in unit tests and TDD
Recently, I’ve been writing rather about more advanced concepts related to automatic testing (mostly related to Spock). However, conducting my…
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JVM Statistics with jstat
I have written about several command-line tools provided with the Oracle and/or OpenJDK Java Development Kits (JDKs) in the past,…
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Yet another Jigsaw opinion piece
In the past weeks there has been a heated debate around the imminent release of Java 9 and its most…
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Java Platform Module System Public Review Fails to Pass
There has been an unusual level of drama, intrigue, and politics in the world of Java over the past few…
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Java’s Observer and Observable are Deprecated in JDK 9
In the blog post Applying JDK 9 @Deprecated Enhancements, I discussed additions of the optional elements (methods) forRemoval() and since()…
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JDK 9 Checklist: Project Jigsaw, sun.misc.Unsafe, G1, REPL, and More
Java 9 is (hopefully) months away, and it’s time to go over what’s about to change, and what you should…
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Integrating Gatling into a Gradle build – Understanding SourceSets and Configuration
I recently worked on a project where we had to integrate the excellent load testing tool Gatling into a Gradle based build.…
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Project Amber: The Future of Java Exposed
If all goes according to plan (Project Jigsaw we’re looking at you), Java 9 is set to launch in less…
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