Property files offer an elegant solution for storing program settings loaded at runtime. The elegance comes from the hierarchical naming scheme, the ability to override settings on the command line, and the idea of default properties. Earlier generatio…
Property files offer an elegant solution for storing program settings loaded at runtime. The elegance comes from the hierarchical naming scheme, the ability to override settings on the command line, and the idea of default properties. Earlier generatio…
Property files offer an elegant solution for storing program settings loaded at runtime. The elegance comes from the hierarchical naming scheme, the ability to override settings on the command line, and the idea of default properties. Earlier generatio…
Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own method throws that exception. (For a great discussi…
Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own method throws that exception. (For a great discussi…
Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own method throws that exception. (For a great discussi…
Many Java developers, including myself, like using the typesafe constant idiom because it provides cleaner code by removing the need to validate whether a constant value is valid or in range. I don’t detail too much here, as the idiom is well documente…
Many Java developers, including myself, like using the typesafe constant idiom because it provides cleaner code by removing the need to validate whether a constant value is valid or in range. I don’t detail too much here, as the idiom is well documente…
Many Java developers, including myself, like using the typesafe constant idiom because it provides cleaner code by removing the need to validate whether a constant value is valid or in range. I don’t detail too much here, as the idiom is well documente…
Threads can be nasty beasts. This is partly attributed to their delicate nature. Threads can die. If the causes of thread death are not in your code, then MutableThread may keep your code running. This article explores a solution using an object-orient…