Applying JDK 9 @Deprecated Enhancements

I discussed the currently proposed JDK 9 enhancements for the @Deprecated annotation in the blog post JDK 9 @Deprecated Annotation…

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JDK 9 @Deprecated Annotation Enhancements

In the post What Might a New @Deprecated Look Like?, I used the description of JEP 277 (“Enhanced Deprecation”) at…

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SPOOLing Queries with Results in psql

SQL*Plus, the Oracle database‘s command-line tool, provides the SPOOL command to “store query results in a file.” The next screen…

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Remembering to Reset Thread Context Class Loader

I’m having a difficult time thinking of anything I like less about working with Java than working with class loaders.…

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Log4j 2.x XSD is Not Fully Descriptive

In the blog post JAXB and Log4j XML Configuration Files, I discussed “nuances and subtleties associated with using JAXB to…

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JAXB and Log4j XML Configuration Files

Both Log4j 1.x and Log4j 2.x support use of XML files to specify logging configuration. This post looks into some…

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Apache PDFBox Command-line Tools: No Java Coding Required

In the blog post Apache PDFBox 2, I demonstrated use of Apache PDFBox 2 as a library called from within…

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Apache PDFBox 2

Apache PDFBox 2 was released earlier this year and Apache PDFBox 2.0.1 and Apache PDFBox 2.0.2 have since been released.…

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Our Tools (Sometimes) Lie to Us

My bachelors degree is in Electrical Engineering and when I started looking for my first post-college job, I had to…

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