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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,

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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June 07, 2006

New Article: Lock_Lint - Static Data Race and Deadlock Detection Tool for C

June 7, 2006 The command-line utility lock_lint analyzes the use of mutex and multiple readers/single writer locks, and reports on inconsistent use of these locking techniques that may lead to data races and deadlocks in multi-threaded applications.

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