Posts tagged "Java"

Inspired by a Jfokus session I attended today I decided to download and install a preview of Java 9 on my MacBook. That went pretty quick and without much trouble. But when I issued java -version on my terminal, I was greeted with Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9-ea+155) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9-ea+155, mixed mode) Although that’s nice - you’d even expect it, maybe - I realised I often need Java 8 as well. — Read more... →

These days, I’m in Stockholm, attending and speaking at the Jfokus conference. Yesterday night was a great opportunity to get to know a few other speakers during dinner. We were even surprised by an act of the Lemon Squeezy barbershop quartet singing for us - very beautiful! But today, the serious stuff started. In the following sections, I have written down my notes and observations of each of the sessions I attended. — Read more... →

When using third-party components (be it open source or not), we all know it’s a good practice to keep your frameworks and libraries up to date. This is also one of the spearhead in the OWASP Top 10 (2013 edition): A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities. To help you assess your projects status with regard to this, OWASP.org developed the tool Dependency Check. This tool is primarily intended code bases in Java, .NET, Ruby, Node.js, and Python. Integration with various build tools is also provided for.

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To start with a cliche: the Java ecosystem continues to develop at a high pace. Various open source frameworks releasing versions, sometimes even multiple versions at the same time. This may quickly turn into a risk But how to deal with it? Basically, you have two options. We’ll take a typical Maven-project as an example, which uses Commons Lang 3. See the end of this post if you prefer Gradle over Maven. — Read more... →

This week, I came across an interesting difference between the Java API documentation and its current implementation. A difference? Or is it just a matter of thorough reading? If you look at the Javadoc for Double.valueOf(), you’ll find that it is likely to outperform the use of new Double(). Sounds good! And don’t we all ove it when we get a free performance boost? However, examining the source code to see what causes this “significantly better space and time performance”, we find…. — Read more... →