Core Java
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Elastic infrastructure in practice
A couple of weeks ago I got a rare opportunity to get my hands dirty in the infrastructure field. Being…
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The Top 100 Java Libraries in 2016 – After Analyzing 47,251 Dependencies
Who’s on top and who’s left behind? We analyzed 47,251 dependencies on Github and pulled out the top 100 Java…
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JSR-308 and the Checker Framework Add Even More Typesafety to jOOQ 3.9
Java 8 introduced JSR-308, which added new annotation capabilities to the Java language. Most importantly: Type annotations. It is now…
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How to manage dependencies in a Gradle multi-project build
I’ve been a fan of the Gradle build tool from quite early on. Its potential was clear even before the 1.0 version, when changes were…
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Code Smells – Part II
In the last post, Code Smells – Part I, I talked about the bloaters: they are code smells that can…
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HotSpot Incremental Java Garbage Collector
In my recent blog post Determining the Active HotSpot Garbage Collector, I described different approaches that can be used to…
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JUnit 5 – Conditions
We recently learned about JUnit’s new extension model and how it allows us to inject customized behavior into the test…
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ANTLR and Jetbrains MPS: Parsing files and display the AST usign the tree notation
Itemis did it again: they just released a new very cool plugin for Jetbrains MPS. This one permits to define new…
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FizzBuzz Kata With Java Streams
After only a couple of weeks of Judo practice, my son got bored. He complained that he wasn’t learning anything, because he…
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