Lombok, AutoValue, and Immutables

I liked Brandon‘s suggestion of a blog post comparing Project Lombok, AutoValue, and Immutables and this is a post that…

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Creating Value Objects with Immutables

In response to my recent post AutoValue: Generated Immutable Value Classes, Brandon suggested that it might be interesting to see…

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AutoValue: Generated Immutable Value Classes

The Google GitHub-hosted project AutoValue is interesting for multiple reasons. Not only does the project make it easy to write…

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Observations From A History of Java Backwards Incompatibility

For the most part, Java is a very backwards compatible programming language. The advantage of this is that large systems…

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On the Virtues of Avoiding Parsing or Basing Logic on toString() Result

With Java or any other programming language I’ve used significantly, I have found that there are occasionally things that can…

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HotSpot Incremental Java Garbage Collector

In my recent blog post Determining the Active HotSpot Garbage Collector, I described different approaches that can be used to…

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Programmatic jcmd Access

Questions posed online demonstrate the occasional desire of developers to access via their Java applications the types of information normally…

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Determining the Active HotSpot Garbage Collector

The StackOverflow questions find which type of garbage collector is running, Default Garbage collector for a jvm, How can I…

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Java 8 Deferred Invocation with Java Util Logging

In the blog post Better Performing Non-Logging Logger Calls in Log4j2, I looked at approaches one can use in Log4j…

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