Core Java
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Building models of Java code from source and JAR files
Recently I spent some time working on effectivejava, which is on its way to reach 300 stars on GitHub (feel…
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Released: NetBeans IDE 8.1 Beta
NetBeans IDE 8.1 Beta has been released. NetBeans IDE has a track record, built up over 15 years, of delivering complete…
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What is the fastest Garbage Collector in Java 8?
OpenJDK 8 has several Garbage Collector algorithms, such as Parallel GC, CMS and G1. Which one is the fastest? What…
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Commons VFS, SSHJ and JSch in Comparison
Some weeks ago I evaluated some SSH libraries for Java. The main requirements to them are file transferring and file…
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Unit testing HTTP calls with LocalTestServer
There are times when you’re unit testing code that is making HTTP calls to a remote server. You could be…
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Teenage Sex and What the sun.misc.Unsafe Misery Teaches Us Generally
Lukas Eder wrote an article about the miseries of the proposed drop off of sun.misc.Unsafe. If you have not heard…
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Java 8’s Method References Put Further Restrictions on Overloading
Method overloading has always been a topic with mixed feelings. We’ve blogged about it and the caveats that it introduces…
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Is using Unsafe really about speed or functionality?
Overview Around 6 years ago, I started using a class which up to that point was just a curiosity sun.misc.Unsafe.…
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Java Numeric Formatting: DecimalFormat
In the post Java Numeric Formatting, I described and demonstrated some of the useful instances provided by NumberFormat static methods…
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