Core Java
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Fluent Object Creation
Many posts have been written on this subject (overwhelmingly many) but I just wanted to contribute my two-cents and write…
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How to shoot yourself in foot with ThreadLocals
It will start nicely. Like most of the stories. You discover a new concept and are amazed by it’s powers.…
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Java Thread Pool Example using Executors and ThreadPoolExecutor
A thread pool manages the pool of worker threads, it contains a queue that keeps tasks waiting to get executed.…
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IntelliJ IDEA: Generate equals, hashCode and toString with Google Guava
THE PROBLEM In the world of Java, we’re quite often in the need of writing equals, hashCode and toString methods.…
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Processing huge files with Java
I recently had to process a set of files containg historical tick-by-tick fx market data and quickly realized that none…
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Garbage Collection Analysis of PCGen
Introduction I decided to combine two software loves of mine and perform some analysis on PCGen, a popular Java based…
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How many threads do I need?
It depends on your application. But for those who wish to have some insight about how to squeeze out most…
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QOTD: Java Thread vs. Java Heap Space
The following question is quite common and is related to OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread problems during the…
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The Importance of Packages
I remember approximately 15 years ago when I started learning Java. I read a lot about this ‘package’ thing and…
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