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More Reasons to Update to Java 7
In Java SE 7 Update 21 Release and more, Tori Wieldt pointed out that “Oracle has released three updates to Java” this past week: Java 6 Update 45, Java 7 Update 21, and Java SE Embedded 7 Update 21. This The Java Source blog post briefly focuses on “n… Continue reading
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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 provides several different types of charts out-of-the-box. All but one of these (the PieChart) are “2 axis charts” (specific impl… Continue reading
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Java Zero Day Vulnerability Exploits JMX and MethodHandles
I recently identified software security issues (#2), especially related to Java, as one of the most significant software development themes of 2012. Not even a month into 2013, a news story receiving a lot of press is the U.S. Department of Homeland Se… Continue reading
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Portable Logger Names with Java 7 Method Handles
Java 7 introduced the Method Handles with the java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle and java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles classes. The Well-Grounded Java Developer (which I have previously reviewed) covers method handles in Chapter 5 (Section 5.2) and concludes w… Continue reading
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JavaOne 2012: Diagnosing Your Application on the JVM
It was worth attending Staffan Larsen’s (Oracle Java Serviceability Architect) presentation “Diagnosing Your Application on the JVM” (Hilton Plaza A/B) just for learning of the new jcmd command-line tool provided with Oracle’s JVM 7. The rest of the pr… Continue reading
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Recent Java News – Mid-August 2012
Oracle has released significant announcements regarding Java in recent weeks. I summarize some of these in this post.
Java SE 6 End of Life Extended to 2013
Henrik Stahl announced in the post Java 6 End of Public Updates extended to February 2013 tha… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Well-Grounded Java Developer
Java-related books are perhaps the most widely available books in terms of diverse selections of any programming language. Even so, most Java books seem to fall into one of two categories: they are either introductory/general level books or they are hi… Continue reading
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Java 7’s Support for Suppressed Exceptions
A new constructor and two new methods were added to the Throwable class (parent of Exception and Error classes) in JDK 7. The new constructor and two new methods were added to support “suppressed exceptions” (not to be confused with the bad practice of… Continue reading
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JDK 7 Additions to Currency Class
The java.util.Currency class has been available since JDK 1.4, but JDK 7 has provided some useful new methods at the class and instance level. I look at these new methods in this post.
The Currency class represents worldwide currencies as “identified … Continue reading
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Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code
In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are listed next:
Suspicious Method Call
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