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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February 22, 2007
As
small to midsized enterprises work to make their servers more
efficient, they can expect to see shifts in what type of...
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Because high performance computing lives on the leading edge of
information technology, predicting the path of HPC is like forecasting
the future...
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Feature Article: y on How to Write a Custom Swing Component
Java Today: Gosling named to Order of Canada, NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 7, and Does Swing need Saving?
Weblogs: Filing bugs, component model motivation, and while client-side Java will succeed...
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You want a GUI component with a unique behavior, and Swing doesnt offer exactly what you need. So what do you do, go without? Hardly. Swings flexibility allows you to develop custom components with any functionality you care to model and render. Substa...
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