JDK 12’s Files.mismatch Method

JDK 12 introduces a new method to the Files class. The method, Files.mismatch(Path,Path), has been introduced to JDK 12 via…

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JDK 12 Javadoc Tag for System Properties

JDK 12 Early Access Build 20 (2018/11/15) is available and can be used to try out the new Javadoc tag…

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Java’s Future-Looking Projects: Panama, Loom, Amber, and Valhalla

The press release “Oracle Code One Java Keynote Outlines the Future of Java” describes the Java Keynote at Oracle Code…

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IBM to Acquire Red Hat: A Java-Oriented First Look

Oracle Corporation completed the process of acquiring Sun Microsystems nearly nine years ago. That was big news then and similarly…

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A Tale of Two Oracle JDKs

There has been concern recently that Java developers will inadvertently use the wrong Oracle-provided JDK implementation now (as of JDK…

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JDK 11 General Availability

As scheduled, it was announced today that JDK 11 was released for General Availability. Earlier this week, Iris Clark announced…

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Raw String Literals Support in JDK 12 Early Access Build 12

The biggest news this week in the world of Java is likely going to be the General Availability of JDK…

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JDK Bug System Time Wasters

Several possibilities of the message’s possible contents crossed my mind when I saw the title of Jesper Wilhelmsson‘s message “Introducing…

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Java Subtlety with Arrays of Primitives and Variable Arguments

An interesting question was posed in a comment on the DZone-syndicated version of my recent blog post “Arrays.hashCode() Vs. Objects.hash()“.…

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