Core Java
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Java 8 Status Updates
The two big new language features of the upcoming Java SE 8 release are Lambda Expressions and Modularity. For both,…
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Debugging the JVM
In some (rare) cases you might find yourself in the situation that you managed to crash the JVM itself. I…
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Java 7: Project Coin in code examples
This blog introduces – by code examples – some new Java 7 features summarized under the term Project Coin. The…
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Why I Like The Verbosity of Java
Java is too verbose, they say. You can find comparisons of Hello World programs that take 2 lines in ruby…
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Make your JAXB cleaner with the MOXy implementation
The principle advantage of using JAXB when marshalling and demarshalling XML is the programming model. Simply annotate a few POJOs…
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Using a memory mapped file for a huge matrix
Overview Matrices can be really large, sometimes larger than you can hold in one array. You can extend the maximum…
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JAXB, SAX, DOM Performance
This post investigates the performance of unmarshalling an XML document to Java objects using a number of different approaches. The…
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Arcane magic with the SQL:2003 MERGE statement
Every now and then, we feel awkward about having to distinguish INSERT from UPDATE for any of the following reasons:…
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Moving Java Forward? A definition. A year in review.
This post is among many other “year end” blog-posts and reviews. But it was intended not to be like this.…
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