Core Java
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Exception Handling Guidelines & Best Practices
Let’s review some basic exception design guidelines, summarized from Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations (Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Alan McKean,…
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Java 7’s Support for Suppressed Exceptions
A new constructor and two new methods were added to the Throwable class (parent of Exception and Error classes) in…
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Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code
In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on…
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Java 7 – Project Coin Decompiled
Hi all, it’s time to start writing in 2012. As you may have seen already in other blogs, there are…
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Java Heap Space – JRockit and IBM VM
This article will provide you with an overview of the JRockit Java Heap Space vs. the HotSpot VM. It will…
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JVM: How to analyze Thread Dump
This article will teach you how to analyze a JVM Thread Dump and pinpoint the root cause of your problem(s).…
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Threading stories: about robust thread pools
Another blog of my threading series. This time it’s about thread pools, robust thread pool settings in particular. In Java…
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ToString: Hexadecimal Representation of Identity Hash Codes
I have blogged before on the handy Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and I was recently asked what the seemingly cryptic text…
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Automaton implementation in Java
This post will address the problem of implementing finite states machines into java. If you don’t know what FSM are…
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