Applying New JDK 11 String Methods

In the posts “New Methods on Java String with JDK 11” and “String#repeat Coming to Java?“, I discussed six new…

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Looking into Java’s Future: Empty Value Types

Although the promising Java value types are not imminent, I still enjoy nosing around occasionally in the OpenJDK valhalla-dev mailing…

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Deferred Execution with Java’s Consumer

In an earlier blog post (“Deferred Execution with Java’s Supplier“) I referenced Cay Horstmann‘s statement in the book “Java SE8…

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JDK 11: Beginning of the End for Java Serialization?

In the blog post “Using Google’s Protocol Buffers with Java,” I quoted Josh Bloch’s Third Edition of Effective Java, in…

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JDK 8 BigInteger Exact Narrowing Conversion Methods

In the blog post “Exact Conversion of Long to Int in Java,” I discussed using Math.toIntExact(Long) to exactly convert a…

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Exact Conversion of Long to Int in Java

With all the shiny things (lambda expressions, streams, Optional, the new Date/Time API, etc.) to distract my attention that came…

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JDK 8 Versus JDK 10: Ternary/Unboxing Difference

A recent Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) tweet caught my attention because it referenced an interesting StackOverflow discussion on a changed behavior…

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Peeking Inside Java Streams with Stream.peek

For a Java developer new to JDK 8-introduced pipelines and streams, the peek(Consumer) method provided by the Stream interface can…

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Thread Methods destroy() and stop(Throwable) Removed in JDK 11

The message “RFR(s): 8204243: remove Thread.destroy() and Thread.stop(Throwable)” by @DrDeprecator (Stuart Marks) on the core-libs-dev OpenJDK mailing list is a…

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