Reflection Tricksies
Awesome trick using reflection and java.lang.String’s literal store. http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53818
iText: PDFs made easy
Tried out iText sometime back for creating PDFs in a J2EE app (ADF 10.1.3 to be specific). It’s a fabulous tool. From my initial read up, pdf layouts will be a bit pain to create as the component tree has to be programatically created. I didn’t need to do layouts so I may have missed […]
Why instanceof is not so hot
Everyone knows the ubiquitous instanceof operator especially when we drill into our minds that instanceof is not a method, it is an operator. :-) You would’ve found it useful in many situations especially when you need to do a bit of refactoring or reflection. This is one operator any programmer ought to be careful about. Unfortunately, […]
Which Hotspot VM?
Did you know that the Java VM ships with two different binaries? Yes, there’s a client VM and a server VM. They differ in various compilation policies and (in particular) heap defaults. While the client VM can be used for applications that require quick start-up and low memory footprint, the sever VM is – well […]
Java References
How often have you implemented a cache in your application? Quite a lot? And how often has the cache lead to an OutOfMemoryError? Did you know that you could use something called SoftReference to prevent that? I didn’t too. It’s surprising how such a great feature in Java hasn’t been as popular as it should […]