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Automatic Deletion of Temporary Work Files in Java 7/Groovy

I have touched on several subjects in individual posts prior to this one that now come together in this single post. These subjects include use of File.deleteOnExit() in Groovy, creation of temporary files in Java, and use of the Java System property j… Continue reading

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Walking the File Tree with Java 7′s Files and FileVisitor

In the previous post Java SE 7 Brings Better File Handling than Ever to Groovy, I discussed the ability to use Java 7′s NIO.2 implementation to discover a wide set of attributes, characteristics, and metadata regarding files and file systems. I followe… Continue reading

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File and Directory Operations with Java 7′s Files Class

In the blog post Java SE 7 Brings Better File Handling than Ever to Groovy, I discussed how the addition of NIO.2 features in JDK 7 means better file handling for Groovy scripts. My particular focus in that post was on the characteristics of files and … Continue reading

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Java SE 7 Brings Better File Handling than Ever to Groovy

There have always been multiple reasons to avoid Java for writing scripts. It was not surprising that Java was not the most appropriate language for scripting because it was never intended to be a scripting language. In addition, the Write Once Run Any… Continue reading

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Software Development Posts of Interest – 2 July 2011

There have been numerous blog posts on software development that I have found to be well worth the time invested in reading them in recent weeks. In this post, I summarize and link to some of these. Topics include Oracle’s Java 7 kick-off, Scala, Devop… Continue reading

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Java 7 Objects-Powered Compact Equals

Obi Ezechukwu’s blog High-Octane Java recently featured the post Compact Equals, which compares an implementation of a Java class’s overridden equals method in traditional form versus one implemented using arrays of the class’s fields and then invoking… Continue reading

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New Java SE 7 Javadoc API Documentation Appearance

In my last post, I briefly referenced the Jonathan Gibbons’s post What’s Up, JavaDoc? that describes some recent changes to Javadoc, including changes that allow a CSS stylesheet to be applied to the documentation. Mark Reinhold’s post JDK 7: Are we th… Continue reading

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Responding to Recent Java 7 Blog Post Comments

There have been several interesting comments posted on my blog in response to recent blog postings on Java 7 that I more fully want to address in this post. I tried to quickly respond to the comments close to the time they were made, but want to use th… Continue reading

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JDK 7: New Interfaces, Classes, Enums, and Methods

There are numerous new classes, enums, methods, and interfaces being added to JDK 7 that may not get significant coverage in the blogs and articles on Java 7. In this post, I list and describe some of these. Note that several of these are not really “m… Continue reading

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JDK 7: Reflection Exception Handling with ReflectiveOperationException and Multi-Catch

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core reflection.” I look at this new exception class and disc… Continue reading

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