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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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April 25, 2007

Joshua Marinacci: Too busy to blog

category: Developers

Ive been too busy to blog for the past couple of weeks. Sadly this will continue for two more weeks until JavaOne begins. Dont worry, though. Its all in a good cause as you will see some great things shortly....

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David Herron: Re: Swing versus SWT Thread Confinement

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In Swing versus SWT Thread Confinement is offered a suggestion to make Swing take a behavioral leaf from SWT, and to change Swing so that it "fails fast" when called from a thread other than the event dispatch thread. Since...

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David Herron: Open, community developed, test suite for Java

category: Developers

Robert Burrell Donkin (JCP: Time For An OpenTCK) and Steve Loughran (Open tests for open standards) discuss their thoughts about an "Open TCK". These are interesting thoughts .. ones that make it tempting to conclude that there must be an...

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Kohsuke Kawaguchi: How to convert java.net.URL to java.io.File?

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Occasionally you need to convert java.net.URL to java.io.File. Do you know how to do it correctly?

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Virtual Flying Dukes Programming Competition

category: Developers

Create and animate a 3D avatar that catches a t-shirt launched from a virtual stage using jMonkeyEngine (jME). Prizes will be awarded to the first 50 contestants who correctly solve the problem, with larger prizes for the most creative, humorous, and...

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