Core Java
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Java Secret: Loading and unloading static fields
OVERVIEW To start with it is natural to assume that static fields have a special life cycle and live for…
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Testing an Object’s Internal State with PowerMock
Most unit testing focuses on testing an object’s behaviour in order to prove that it works. This is achieved by…
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Top 10 Java Books you don’t want to miss
We learn by reading books and experimenting on it. So, it is imperative that you choose the best available options.…
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Concurrency optimization – Reduce lock granularity
Performance is very important in high load multi-threaded applications. Developers must be aware of concurrency issues in order to achieve…
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Monitoring OpenJDK from the CLI
Currently I do quite a bit of work in and around the Java virtual machine (JVM), most of the time…
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Programming antipatterns
Did you ever do a code review where you recorded an extremely high amount of WTF/m? And did you…
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Sending emails with Java
I start writing this post as a simple “how to send an email” using Java, but later I found I…
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Java Twitter client with Twitter4j
Got inspired by my friend, who built his own Twitter client for his company’s client. So, I tried to build…
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Use java.util.prefs.Preferences instead of java.util.Properties
A typical installer for an application needs to ask the user a couple of options and some of these are…
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