Core Java
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Java Object Interning
Java stores the string contants appearing in the source code in a pool. In other words when you have a…
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Clean SWT Listener Notifcations with SWTEventHelper
Writing tests for SWT based UIs often requires to notify widget listeners programmatically. Unfortunately the code to create, initialize and…
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Java 8 : What do developers think?
Since Java 8 releasement countdown is starting, Java developers seem certainly ready to get involved. According to a survey in…
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Java 8 Friday Goodies: Easy-as-Pie Local Caching
At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we’re really into jOOQ’s fluent API and query DSL, we’re absolutely thrilled…
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What’s new in Java 8 – Date API
With the final release of Java 8 around the corner, one of the new features I’m excited about is the…
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Good use of Closures
Not long ago, in a blog post, I explained what Closure were in Groovy. This blog post will explain one…
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Java 8: Lambda Expressions vs Auto Closeable
If you used earlier versions of Neo4j via its Java API with Java 6 you probably have code similar to…
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An open source JVM Sampling Profiler
It’s a well known deficiency of most existing sampling Java profilers that their collection of stack traces has to happen…
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Allocating memory for the JVM: a case study
This post is about a recent performance tuning exercise. As always, these start with vague statements about symptoms. This time…
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