Java SE 7 Update 25 – Release-Notes explained.

Yesterday was CPU day. Oracle released the Java SE update 25 with the June Java Critical Patch Update. After the…

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Minor Gotchas from migration to Java 7

After several years of pushing, we are finally starting to pull our application out of the dark ages  in terms…

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Java 7 Update 21 Security Improvements in Detail

Oracle released three updates to Java yesterday. It is important to note that they contain several security related changes. The…

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JavaFX 2 XYCharts and Java 7 Features

One of my favorite features of JavaFX 2 is the standard charts it provides in its javafx.scene.chart package. This package…

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Changes to String.substring in Java 7

It is common knowledge that Java optimizes the substring operation for the case where you generate a lot of substrings…

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Wordcounter, Counting Words in Java with Lambdas and Fork/Join

These days I released Wordcounter, a Java library and command-line utility for counting words in text files and performing analysis…

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Java 7: File Filtering using NIO.2 – Part 3

Hello all. This is Part 3 of the File Filtering using NIO.2 series. For those of you who haven’t read Part…

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Java 7: File Filtering using NIO.2 – Part 2

Hello all. This is Part 2 of the File Filtering using NIO.2 series. For those of you who haven’t read Part…

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Java 7: File Filtering using NIO.2 – Part 1

NIO.2 is a new API for I/O operations included in the JDK since Java 7. With this new API, you…

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