Core Java
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Java8 Multi-threading ForkJoinPool: Dealing with exceptions
One of the main motivations behind the introduction of Java8 lambdas was the ability to be able to use multicores…
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JDBC Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide (PDF Download)
In this post, we feature a comprehensive JDBC Tutorial (Java Database Connectivity), an API provided by Oracle that allows programmers…
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Programmatically Determining Java Class’s JDK Compilation Version
When it is necessary to determine which JDK version was used to compile a particular Java .class file, an approach…
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You Will Regret Applying Overloading with Lambdas!
Writing good APIs is hard. Extremely hard. You have to think of an incredible amount of things if you want…
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Java 8 Optional is not just for replacing a null value
Overview In Java 8, you can return an Optional instead of return null; as you might do in Java 7.…
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Testing Grunt Plugin From Grunt
Writing tests for grunt plugin turned out to be less straightforward then expected. I needed to run multiple task configurations…
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Everything You Need To Know About Default Methods
So, default methods… yesterday’s news, right? Yes but after a year of use, a lot of facts accumulated and I…
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How The Decorator Pattern Saved My Day
At work I am dealing with a huge Java code base, which was developed over the course of more than…
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The Serialization Proxy Pattern
In my last post, I talked about serialization in general. This one is much more focused and presents a single…
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