Rafael Winterhalter

Rafael is a software engineer based in Oslo. He is a Java enthusiast with particular interests in byte code engineering, functional programming, multi-threaded applications and the Scala language.

Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterJanuary 9th, 2015
0 92
Make agents, not frameworks
Ever since their introduction, Java annotations have become an integral part of the APIs of larger application frameworks. Good examples…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterMay 19th, 2014
0 35
Java 8 default methods can break your (users’) code
At first glance, default methods brought a great new feature to the Java Virtual Machine’s instruction set. Finally, library developers…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterJanuary 2nd, 2014
0 39
Memory leaks and memory management in Java applications
One of the more prominent features of the Java platform is its automatic memory management. Many people translate this feature…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterDecember 30th, 2013
3 1,536
Extending Guava caches to overflow to disk
Caching allows you to significantly speed up applications with only little effort. Two great cache implementations for the Java platform…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterDecember 27th, 2013
6 4,300
Advanced Java generics: retreiving generic type arguments
After their introduction in the JDK5, Java generics quickly became an integral element of many Java programs. However, as easy…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterDecember 24th, 2013
2 546
The infamous sun.misc.Unsafe explained
The biggest competitor to the Java virtual machine might be Microsoft’s CLR that hosts languages such as C#. The CLR…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterDecember 23rd, 2013
1 347
Subtyping in Java generics
Generic types introduce a new spectrum of type safety to Java program. At the same type, generic types can be…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterDecember 23rd, 2013
0 52
Object-based micro-locking for concurrent applications by using Guava
One of the presumably most annoying problems with writing concurrent Java applications is the handling of resources that are shared…
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Core Java
Rafael WinterhalterDecember 17th, 2013
0 530
cglib: The missing manual
The byte code instrumentation library cglib is a popular choice among many well-known Java frameworks such as Hibernate (not anymore)…
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