March 15, 2010
Joe Darcy: Beware of Covariant Overriding in Interface Hierarchies.
One of the changes to the Java programming language made back in JDK 5 was the introduction of
covariant returns, that is, the ability in a subtype to override a method in a supertype and return a more specific type. For example,
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March 14, 2010
Stephen Colebourne: Java language design by use case.
In a blog in 2006 Neal Gafter
wrote
about how language design was fundamentally different to API design and how use cases
were a bad approach to language design.
This blog questions some of those conclusions in the context of the Java language.
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August 01, 2006
category: Developers
Read about Building on Linux: Sun Tools on SDN Channel, Scripting for the Java Platform, Accessing Resources From JavaServer Faces Custom Components and Ask Komsi of Nokia talks
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category: Developers
Software 3.0, Branding Your Blog, Dont Throw It Away
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category: Developers
Learn about concurrancy, garbage collection, and the two new sections being added to the newsletter.
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category: Developers
I started my programming "career" on a
Dragon 32
microcomputer in 6th grade. It had 32K of RAM, although once you turned the computer on it would launch a Microsoft BASIC interpreter which left 24K for your own programs. I spent countless hours...
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