The ProposalA new JEP has been proposed by Brian Goetz that would simplify the writing of Java applications. The proposal is to introduce Local Variable Type Inference, a feature that
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Learn How to Declare Private and Protected Methods in Java 8 InterfacesWhen Java 8 was introduced, we could use default methods in interfaces. The main driver for this feature was
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What is Object Resurrection?A Java object is eligible for Garbage Collection when no other object references the object. When the JVM:s Garbage Collector eventually is about to remove an unused
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Expose Your Classes DynamicallyDuke and Spire exposing another look... When I was a Java newbie, I remember thinking that there should be a way of removing or hiding methods in my
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Components are Good!Spire and Duke is plugging in...A couple of years ago when I worked in the telecom industry, I spent time cleaning up Java code that mixed the concept
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BackgroundOne of the most distinguished feature of us programmers is that we are inherently lazy. Not in a bad way that we do not want to work, but in a
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Escape Analysis AftermathMy post on Java Escape Analysis has triggered a lot of interest. I made a follow up post on the effect of inlining on Escape Analysis.A company that
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BackgroundIn my previous post, I wrote about Escape Analysis and how the JVM can allocate non-escaping objects on the stack rather than on the heap. I immediately got a very
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BackgroundI am working on the Open Source project Speedment and for us contributors, it is important to use code that people can understand and improve. It is also important that
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Database Connectivity Now and ThenSpire and Duke adding stuffto a database.I remember back in the old (Java) days, when we were sitting up late nights and experimented a lot with
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Mapping StreamsWhen I wrote my first Java database application back in the late 90's, I had to do everything myself. There was a lot of code, error capturing and object conversions
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BackgroundIn some of my posts, I have talked about calculating n-factorial (i.e. n!) and I have received some comments about performance. In my post Compute factorials using Java 8 streams, I
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