Since my last blog post—there haven’t been any lately due to my workload—several articles have been published in German Java magazines: “Effektiv, effizient und sicher – Theorie und Praxis von Zufallszahlengeneratoren”…
On January 25, 2019, another article of mine has been published in the German Java magazine JavaSPEKTRUM, issue 01/2019. Its title is “Vom Mauerblümchen zur Wunderpille – Der Einsatz von enums…
On December 18, 2018, the German Java magazine JAVAPRO, issue 03/2018, has published the first part of my three-part article series, titled “Deep-Dive into Annotations”. This first part covers the…
On Monday, January 28, 2019, I will deliver a speech on concurrency in Java at Guild42.ch in Berne. I will give an overview of the Java Concurrency API and demonstrate…
On November 30, 2018, the renowned German Java magazine JavaSPEKTRUM, issue 06/2018, has published my first article, titled “Garbage-Collector unter Lupe – Objektreferenzen in Java” (“Garbage Collector Under the Microscope—Object References…
Introduction In this blog post, I want to introduce the fork/join framework that has been part of Java since version 7. In order to demonstrate its great advantages, I set…
Introduction In Part 1 of this topic, I’ve shown you several ways of implementing equals and hashCode. I wasn’t able to conclude with a definite answer to the question which way…
Introduction My first two blog posts on this website have been a two-part article about the evolution of Java’s compareTo and Comparator#compare methods. Implementing order for comparable objects is important,…
Introduction I bet that most Java programmers fall into the trap of trying to create generic arrays at least once in their Java software development career, wondering why the compiler…
Introduction This blog post covers an interesting aspect of Java. Today’s reference implementation of the Java Development Kit (JDK), OpenJDK, has been free and open source since 2007. Even though…