Java, a portable, multitasking, object oriented language. It has captured a considerable share of market so far. We also have huge number of products developed using this language to provide need based features to applications using it. It has also come long way since it’s birth. We have been using this language in many applications; still there are some places where we would prefer to say No to Java. These occasions may be result of some inherent disadvantages in Java, or these can be the side effects of some of …

Till date there would have been hundreds of thousands of lines of code written in each programming language. Every new application getting developed adds thousands of lines of code to this code pool. But this code is not for free, it involves huge amount of money. There are many techniques to reduce the application development cost and to improve productivity. Still we have to handwrite all the code. UML design tools, IDEs like RAD and Eclipse etc. do help in automating this code writing process. Still there is a lot …

Ok, I haven’t written any tool to scan entire worlds Java code to find out these syntax elements. But definitely, all of us have gone through thousands of lines of good and bad code since we learned this language – Java. Not only me but all those who call themselves as Java developer have traveled along with this language in its journey, which started long back with a tag of platform independent object oriented language to the recent versions where everything is getting annotated. It is not just a tag …

We remember the hype that rocked java world with entry of this web tier framework. It is different as compared to those frameworks which (actually) are front runners of web application technology stack. These include Struts, Spring MVC, Tapestry and many more. These frameworks provided simple MVC based web tier, and a set of classes abstracting the non functional part. This definitely made us to leave behind the MVC implementation of Jsp – Servlet – POJO/EJB, and use these frameworks instead. These technologies varied more in richness than fundamentals. Arrival …

Google Collections provide additional collection types to offer additional but common features. These advanced types are derived from Java Collection types, hence they continue to offer the features of underlying Java type. In addition to that there are many additional features encapsulated in these new types, so that we can directly use them instead of re-inventing wheel. Let us see these interfaces and features of those interfaces.