Java
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Ensuring the order of execution for tasks
Sometimes it is necessary to impose certain order on the tasks in a threadpool. Issue 206 of the JavaSpecialists newsletter…
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Can synchronization be optimised away?
Overview There is a common misconception that because the JIT is smart and synchronization can be eliminated for an object…
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JAXB – Representing Null and Empty Collections
Demo Code The following demo code will be used for all the different versions of the Java model. It simply…
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Under the JVM hood – Classloaders
Classloaders are a low level and often ignored aspect of the Java language among many developers. At ZeroTurnaround , our…
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Chunk Oriented Processing in Spring Batch
Big Data Sets’ Processing is one of the most important problem in the software world. Spring Batch is a lightweight…
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Java Object resurrection
Overview After an object which overrides finalize() is collected it is added to a finalization queue to be cleaned up…
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Java – far sight look at JDK 8
The world is changing slowly but surely. After the changes that gave java a fresher look with JDK 7, the…
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Generating Barcodes in PDFs with Flying-Saucer
Flying-Saucer is a nice library to generate PDF documents from within Java applications. Just generate a bunch of XHTML, throw…
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Hand and Finger Detection using JavaCV
This post is part of a series on Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) published by Dr. Andrew Davison and deals with…
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