Under the JVM hood – Classloaders

Classloaders are a low level and often ignored aspect of the Java language among many developers. At ZeroTurnaround , our…

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Java – far sight look at JDK 8

The world is changing slowly but surely. After the changes that gave java a fresher look with JDK 7, the…

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Hand and Finger Detection using JavaCV

This post is part of a series on Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) published by Dr. Andrew Davison and deals with…

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Functional Java collections

There is a lot of functional hype these days so I would give a short overview on what is out…

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The Java Advent Calendar

The Java Advent Calendar is winter-festivities themed blog featuring (at least) one Java-related post per day between the 1st and…

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Using Builder Pattern in JUnit tests

This is not intended to be a heavily technical post. The goal of this post is to give you some…

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Changes to String.substring in Java 7

It is common knowledge that Java optimizes the substring operation for the case where you generate a lot of substrings…

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Java Management Extensions

What is JMX? The Java Management Extensions (JMX) is an API used for managing or monitoring various resources such as…

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Java Enum puzzler

Let’s suppose we have the following code: enum Case { CASE_ONE, CASE_TWO, CASE_THREE; private static final int counter; private int…

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