My Favorite Online Resources for Advanced Java Developers

The ProgramCreek.com blog has recently featured two interesting posts targeted at “advanced” Java developers: Top 10 Books For Advanced Level…

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Better JUnit-based Unit Tests with NetBeans 7.4 beta Hints

In my last post, I wrote about hints provided in NetBeans 7.4 beta that improve a developer’s ability to avoid…

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NetBeans 7.4 Beta Hints Warn of Ineffective Exception Handling

There are numerous examples of how Java exception handling can be more difficult than it might first appear and Josh…

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Is Java Riskier than C/C++?

Lately, I’ve heard a number of folks discussing whether Java development is riskier than development in C/C++ (from here on…

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Ant Properties Nuances

Every once in a while, I’m reminded of a few subtle nuances of Ant properties that can, when forgotten, lead…

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Groovy Sql and Oracle ‘Invalid column index’ SQLException

There are some minor potential dangers associated with Groovy’s def keyword. The Groovy style and language feature guidelines for Java…

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Escaping XML with Groovy 2.1

When posting source code to my blog, I often need to convert less than signs (<), and greater than signs…

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Enhanced Groovy-based JAR/Manifest Diff Tool

This brief blog post provides another Groovy script that provides simple differencing of two JAR (or WAR or EAR) files…

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Comparing Manifest Files with Groovy

My last post discussed comparing the high-level contents of two JAR files using a Groovy script and a 2011 post…

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