Java has come a long way. A very long way. And it carries with it all the “junk” from early day design decisions. One thing that has been regretted time and again is the fact that every object (potentially) contains a monitor. This is hardly ever necessary and this flaw was corrected, finally, in Java … Continue reading If Java…
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12 Jan 2016
3 Nov 2014
So, you’ve been working with Java since the very beginning? Remember the days when it was called “Oak”, when OO was still a hot topic, when C++ folks thought that Java had no chance, when Applets were still a thing? I bet that you didn’t know at least half of the following things. Let’s start … Continue reading 10 Things…
24 Feb 2014
Java 7 has eased some pain in the area of exception handling when the new try-with-resources and multi-catch syntaxes were introduced. The latter is very interesting from a syntax perspective because it is the only place in Java where formal union types are allowed, similar to what Ceylon offers. Remember, a union type A | … Continue reading Feature Request…