Weak References in Java
1. Overview In this article, we’ll have a look at the concept of a weak reference – in the Java language. We’re going to explain […]
Month: July 2021
A Guide to the ResourceBundle
1. Overview Many software developers, during their professional careers, face an opportunity to develop multilingual systems or applications. These’re usually destined for end-users from different […]
Guide to the Java Clock Class
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’re going to look into the Java Clock class from the java.time package. We’ll explain what the Clock class is and how we can use it. 2. The Clock Class […]
Dynamic Proxies in Java
1. Introduction This article is about Java’s dynamic proxies – which is one of the primary proxy mechanisms available to us in the language. Simply put, proxies […]
Call Methods at Runtime Using Java Reflection
1. Overview In this short article, we’ll take a quick look at how to invoke methods at runtime using the Java Reflection API. 2. Getting Ready […]
Introduction to Java Serialization
1. Introduction Serialization is the conversion of the state of an object into a byte stream; deserialization does the opposite. Stated differently, serialization is the […]
Guide to Escaping Characters in Java RegExps
1. Overview The regular expressions API in Java, java.util.regex is widely used for pattern matching. To discover more, you can follow this article. In this article, we will […]
How to Get All Dates Between Two Dates?
1. Overview The new Time API introduced in Java 8 made it possible to process date and time without using external libraries. In this short […]
Changing Annotation Parameters At Runtime
1. Overview Annotations, a form of metadata which you can add to Java code. These annotations can be processed at compile time and embedded to class files […]
How to Get a Name of a Method Being Executed?
1. Overview Sometimes we need to know the name of the current Java method being executed. This quick article presents a couple of simple ways […]
A Guide To UDP In Java
1. Overview In this article, we will be exploring networking communication with Java, over the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). UDP is a communication protocol that transmits […]
Convert Hex to ASCII in Java
1. Overview In this quick article, we’re going to do some simple conversions between the Hex and ASCII formats. In a typical use case, the […]
Working with Network Interfaces in Java
1. Overview In this article, we’ll focus on network interfaces and how to access them programmatically in Java. Simply put, a network interface is the point […]
The Basics of Java Security
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll go through the basics of security on the Java platform. We’ll also focus on what’s available to us for […]
Composition, Aggregation, and Association in Java
1. Introduction Objects have relationships between them, both in real life and in programming. Sometimes it’s difficult to understand or implement these relationships. In this […]
Introduction to the Java NIO Selector
1. Overview In this article, we’ll explore the introductory parts of Java NIO’s Selector component. A selector provides a mechanism for monitoring one or more NIO channels […]
A Guide to WatchService in Java NIO2
1. Overview In this article, we are going to explore the WatchService interface of Java NIO.2 filesystem APIs. This is one of the lesser known features of […]
Java NIO2 Path API
1. Overview In this article, we will learn how to use the new I/O (NIO2) Path API in Java. The Path APIs in NIO2 constitute one of the major […]
Java IO vs NIO
1. Overview Handling input and output are common tasks for Java programmers. In this tutorial, we’ll look at the original java.io (IO) libraries and the newer java.nio (NIO) libraries and how […]
Introduction to the Java NIO2 File API
1. Overview In this article, we’re going to focus on the new I/O APIs in the Java Platform – NIO2 – to do basic file manipulation. […]
