http://chaoticjava.com The internet, design patterns, frameworks and Java Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:09:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/revival-of-the-yielder-project/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/revival-of-the-yielder-project/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:17:00 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=314 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/revival-of-the-yielder-project/feed/ 0 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/simple-solution-to-resource-collection/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/simple-solution-to-resource-collection/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:24:24 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=301 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/simple-solution-to-resource-collection/";It’s called garbage collection, not resource collection! Java’s garbage collector has made life so easy for us developers that we sometimes confuse between deleting a reference, i.e. a task the GC does, and releasing a resource – a task the GC doesn’t do. That’s because the GC does something else for us called object finalization, [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/simple-solution-to-resource-collection/feed/ 8 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/java-logger-memory-leaks/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/java-logger-memory-leaks/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:13:52 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=292 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/java-logger-memory-leaks/";Recently we switched from Log4J to the java.util.logger package (for this entry it will be called the “Java Logger”). Why, you might wonder, and I don’t have a good reason to give other than the illusion the Java Logger package gives as being more standard. I would like to stress the word illusion for a [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/java-logger-memory-leaks/feed/ 12 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-quiet-revolution-part-i-jsr-296/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-quiet-revolution-part-i-jsr-296/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:32:16 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=261 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-quiet-revolution-part-i-jsr-296/feed/ 3 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/jsr-292-first-draft-review/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/jsr-292-first-draft-review/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:51:08 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=249 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/jsr-292-first-draft-review/feed/ 2 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/io-performance-tar-file-bytes/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/io-performance-tar-file-bytes/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:12:48 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=240 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/io-performance-tar-file-bytes/";One of the most classic patterns in software is the producer-consumer pattern. There is a module producing data, and a module reading it for further processing. Moreover, in order to achieve better performance, usually there are many consumer modules running on many different threads while the producer (or several producers) run on its own thread. [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/io-performance-tar-file-bytes/feed/ 2 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/project-darkstar-unit-testing-and-mock-objects/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/project-darkstar-unit-testing-and-mock-objects/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:16:02 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=239 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/project-darkstar-unit-testing-and-mock-objects/";Ever since I started using TDD (test driven development) methods in my work, I never stopped. I rarely start a project without knowing how I’ll test it, and not just in Java: C#, Objective-C, and Python as well. I’ve found that TDD can be done in the most unlikely places, such as servlets using Cactus [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/project-darkstar-unit-testing-and-mock-objects/feed/ 1 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/buildxml-generator-for-eclipse/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/buildxml-generator-for-eclipse/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:01:22 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=238 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/buildxml-generator-for-eclipse/";Know the feeling when you’re just about to release code to the public’s eye, and all you need to do is write that pesky build file? Even as I write it I feel it’s an understatement: the task of creating an ant build file can take a few good days out of anyone’s life, and even [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/buildxml-generator-for-eclipse/feed/ 7 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/switch-by-class-type/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/switch-by-class-type/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 04:46:52 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=230 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/switch-by-class-type/";Imagining a method which receives as a parameter a type Object instance and needs to perform some action according to its type is not difficult. In fact, there are several design patterns that, when used in combination, help solve just that. However, this post is about adding a new switch..case construct to prevent some boiler-plate [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/switch-by-class-type/feed/ 9 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/exposing-collections-paranoia-vs-trust-approaches/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/exposing-collections-paranoia-vs-trust-approaches/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 06:17:35 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=236 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/exposing-collections-paranoia-vs-trust-approaches/";Whenever a class in my model contains a collection which requires that particular care be taken with its items, there’s an internal debate regarding how to expose it to other classes. And with this, there are two major schools: one, the paranoia-based approach which doesn’t allow external code to touch the collection’s internal items and [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/exposing-collections-paranoia-vs-trust-approaches/feed/ 16