My Article Published in JAVAPRO
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 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…
Introduction Java provides two primitive types for floating-point arithmetic: float and double. The latter is usually preferred to the former since doubles are much more precise than floats (15–17 digits…
Introduction In Part 1 of this topic you’ve seen different methods for implementing order for Java objects, showing you the transition from old Java versions to current versions. You’ve become acquainted…