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Nov 8, 2017 — 1 minute(s) readLibera #java
Javachannel’s interesting links podcast, episode 7
Welcome to the seventh ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 November 6. Today feels slightly less anonymous than yesterday. This week we have a co-host, Andrew Lombardi – kinabalu on ##java – and we also offer our humblest apologies to Ms. Debbie Gibson. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to...
Nov 6, 2017 — 8 minute(s) readJavachannel’s interesting links podcast, episode 6
Welcome to the sixth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 30. Scary! Tomorrow’s Halloween. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to Java, feel free to submit it to the channel bot, with ~submit and a URL to the interesting thing, or you can also write an article...
Oct 30, 2017 — 7 minute(s) readHow (not) to extend standard collection classes
Today in ##java, someone had a problem: They wanted a bounded-size PriorityQueue. One solution offered was extending the PriorityQueue class to add this behavior1. This article will talk about why that is not a good solution. Here is an example implementation of this approach: public class BoundedPriorityQueue<E> extends PriorityQueue<E> { private final int bound; public BoundedPriorityQueue(Comparator<? super E> comparator, int bound) { super(comparator); this.bound = bound...
Oct 24, 2017 — 7 minute(s) readJavachannel's interesting links podcast, episode 5
Welcome to the fifth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 23. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to Java, feel free to submit it to the channel bot, with ~submit and a URL to the interesting thing, or you can also write an article for the channel blog...
Oct 23, 2017 — 9 minute(s) readInteresting links podcast, episode 4
Welcome to the fourth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 16. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel; if you see something interesting that’s related to Java, feel free to submit it to the channel bot, with ~submit and a URL to the interesting thing, or you can also write an article for the channel blog as well...
Oct 16, 2017 — 6 minute(s) readInteresting Links podcast, episode 3
Welcome to the third ##java podcast. I’m your host, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 9. As usual, this podcast is built from interesting content submitted to the channel bot, using the ~submit command. If you’re on the channel, it’s very easy to use: ~submit and a URL is all you need, although it’s very helpful if you include a comment about what makes the content...
Oct 9, 2017 — 6 minute(s) readInteresting Links podcast, episode 2
Welcome to the second ##java podcast. We have lots of interesting things to cover, so let’s dive in. Java EE development has moved to the Eclipse Foundation, under the project name “Eclipse Enterprise for Java“, or “EE4J.” Java EE is still the branding for enterprise Java. This move makes Java EE more open; we’ll have to see how well it works under the Eclipse Foundation. We’ll survive either way; it’s a...
Oct 2, 2017 — 5 minute(s) readInteresting Links podcast, episode 1
This is the first ##java channel podcast. I decided to do a podcast for a few reasons: probably the most important is that I thought it would save time for me; another reason is that I thought it would be nice to have more of a multimedia approach to propagating information from the channel. Download javachannel-1.mp3 I don’t know what kind of schedule the podcast will take. I wanted it to be...
Sep 25, 2017 — 5 minute(s) readJarSplice: building fat jars with native resources bundled
JarSplice is an application that builds a fat jar, with the main difference being that JarSplice will build invocation scripts and include native resources. The main weaknesses of JarSplice seems to be its lack of build tool integration, its (apparently) unmaintained status, and its lack of source code availability (even though it’s described as being under the BSD license). A “fat jar” (or a “shaded jar”) is a jar file that has been bundled...
Jul 14, 2017 — 2 minute(s) read