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Core Java
JDK 11: Release Candidate Update and OpenJDK JDK 11 LTS
JDK 11 is scheduled to be released for General Availability on Tuesday, 25 September 2018. A 16 August 2018 Mark…
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Core Java
Carefully Specify Multiple Resources in Single try-with-resources Statement
One of the more useful new features of Java 7 was the introduction of the try-with-resources statement [AKA Automatic Resource…
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Core Java
APIs To Be Removed from Java 11
After seeing several APIs removed as part of Java 10, Java 11 (JSR 384) looks to remove some more APIs.…
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Core Java
JDK 12, Merging Collectors, and the Challenge of Naming
It appears likely that a new method will be available on the java.util.streams.Collectors class in JDK 12 that will, according…
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Core Java
JDK 11: Taking Single-File Java Source-Code Programs Out for a Spin
The JDK 11 Early Access Builds include preview functionality related to JEP 330 (“Launch Single File Source Code Programs”). I…
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Core Java
Memory-Hogging Enum.values() Method
I’m a big fan of Java’s enum. It seemed like we waited forever to get it, but when we did…
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Core Java
JDK 11: New Default Collection Method toArray(IntFunction)
The “JDK 11 Early-Access Release Notes” indicate that Early Access Build 20 of JDK 11 includes a new default method…
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Core Java
Optional.isEmpty() Available in JDK 11 EA Builds
My recently posted question “Optional.isEmpty() Coming to Java?” was prompted by a core-libs-dev mailing list post titled “RFR: 8184693: (opt)…
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Core Java
Deferred Execution with Java’s Predicate
In the previous posts “Deferred Execution with Java’s Supplier” and “Deferred Execution with Java’s Consumer“, I looked at easily deferring…
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