Roll Your Own Pirate-Elvis Operator

So, Java doesn’t have an Elvis operator (or, as it is more formally known, null coalescing operator or null-safe member…

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Test Collection Implementations with Guava

I’m currently adding a new feature to LibFX, for which I create some custom collections akin to those from the…

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Interface Evolution With Default Methods – Part I: Methods

A couple of weeks back we took a detailed look into default methods – a feature introduced in Java 8…

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Value-Based Classes

In Java 8 some classes got a small note in Javadoc stating they are value-based classes. This includes a link…

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Everything You Need To Know About Default Methods

So, default methods… yesterday’s news, right? Yes but after a year of use, a lot of facts accumulated and I…

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How The Decorator Pattern Saved My Day

At work I am dealing with a huge Java code base, which was developed over the course of more than…

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The Serialization Proxy Pattern

In my last post, I talked about serialization in general. This one is much more focused and presents a single…

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The Decorator Pattern With Java 8

In a recent post I described how the decorator pattern saved my day. I gave a small code snippet which…

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Concepts of Serialization

With all this talk about why Optional isn’t serializable and what to do about it (coming up soon), let’s have…

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