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- Java XML and JSON: Document processing for Java SE, Part 2 March 14, 2019In this post, we'll continue exploring XML and JSON in Java 11 and beyond.Examples in this post will introduce you to JSON-B, the JSON Binding API for Java. After a quick overview and installation instruction, I'll show you how to use JSON-B to serialize and deserialize Java objects, arrays, and collections; how to customize serialization […]
- Java XML and JSON: Document processing for Java SE, Part 1 March 6, 2019XML and JSON are important to me, and I'm grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this Java Q&A post I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and JSON. I'll also present two useful demos that I would have liked to include in […]
- Java Challengers #6: Thread behavior in the JVM February 5, 2019Threading refers to the practice of executing programming processes concurrently to improve application performance. While it's not that common to work with threads directly in business applications, they're used all the time in Java frameworks.As an example, frameworks that process a large volume of information, like Spring Batch, use threads to manage data. Manipulating threads […]
- JDK 12 beta: The new features coming to Java 12 December 17, 2018Java Development Kit 12, the next version of Java SE, has reached the point where its major feature set is frozen. But one existing proposal in JDK 12, for raw string literals, could be removed from the release this week.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
- Java 12 could ax raw string literals December 13, 2018Java Development Kit (JDK) 12 soon could be minus one feature that had been targeted for the release: a beta version of raw string literals.Meant to ease developing with Java, a raw string literal can span multiple lines of source code and does not interpret escape sequences. But the developers of this feature no longer […]
- Java Challengers #5: Sorting with Comparable and Comparator in Java November 29, 2018Programmers frequently need to sort elements from a database into a collection, array, or map. In Java, we can implement whatever sorting algorithm we want with any type. Using the Comparable interface and compareTo() method, we can sort using alphabetical order, String length, reverse alphabetical order, or numbers. The Comparator interface allows us to do […]
- Java proposal would spot data races with a thread sanitizer November 29, 2018Java’s HotSpot virtual machine could be fitted with a race-detection tool and other monitoring capabilities, under a proposal being floated in the OpenJDK community. A data race in a Java program makes the program incorrectly synchronized, which leads to erroneous, nondeterministic, and unexpected behaviors.Called the Atlantis Project, the effort would explore possibilities for integrating HotSpot […]
- Write a purely functional Bubble Sort application November 12, 2018Neal Ford coined the term functional thinking to describe the mental shift required from developers trained primarily in object-oriented programming, who want to integrate functional programming concepts and techniques into their practice. I applied this concept in my two-part tutorial, "Functional programming for Java developers." In Part 1, I introduced five functional programming techniques written […]
- Functional programming for Java developers, Part 2 November 12, 2018Welcome back to this two-part tutorial introducing functional programming in a Java context. In Part 1 I used JavaScript examples to get you started with five functional programming techniques: pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation, closures, and currying. Presenting those examples in JavaScript allowed us to focus on the techniques in a simpler syntax, without […]
- Java 101: Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1 October 30, 2018Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it's no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective. A Java developer must also be able to think and code using the declarative functional paradigm.This tutorial presents the basics of functional […]