Book Review: Mockito Essentials

The subtitle of Sujoy Acharya‘s Mockito Essentials (Packt Publishing, October 2014) is: “A practical guide to get you up and…

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Significant Software Development Developments of 2014

One of my favorite posts to write each year is the year-ending summary of some of the developments in the…

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Three Common Methods Generated in Three Java IDEs

In this post, I look at the differences in three “common” methods [equals(Object), hashCode(), and toString()] as generated by NetBeans…

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Goodbye, Dr. Dobb’s

Andrew Binstock‘s 16 December 2014 column Farewell, Dr. Dobb’s announces that the Dr. Dobb’s parent company is planning to “sunset”…

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Manipulating JARs, WARs, and EARs on the Command Line

Although Java IDEs and numerous graphical tools make it easier than ever to view and manipulate the contents of Java…

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Cannot Uninstall JavaFX SceneBuilder 1.0 with JDK 8

I was recently removing some of the software development applications, tools, and files I had used from an old Vista-based…

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Java Extension Mechanism Loads All JARs

The Java Extension Mechanism is described in the Java Tutorial as a “standard, scalable way to make custom APIs available…

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Java Minor Releases Scheme Tweaked Again

In 2013, Oracle announced the Java SE – Change in Version Numbering Scheme. The announcement stated that Limited Update releases…

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NetBeans 8.0’s Five New Performance Hints

NetBeans 8.0 introduces several new Java hints. Although there are a large number of these new hints related to Java…

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