Chaotic Java

Time for some refreshing the memory with a Java language feature probably few use, and maybe for a good reason. Suppose you’re running code on elements of an array up until a certain element is found. When your code finds that element, it stops the iteration. Therefore, your code might look like the following:

for (int i = 0; i < array.length && condition(array[i]); i++) {
  // your code here
}

Or, if you’d like to use the new foreach feature, like this:
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For those of you who don’t know what OpenID is, get to know it now. This post is going to be about how to use OpenID authentication in your GWT applications.

First, a reminder of what OpenID is:

OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet.

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For a couple of weeks now, the Google Web Toolkit 1.5 milestone 1 was available for download (announcement here). This completes the set of Java language features added to Java 5 by adding support for enums (much better than my workaround enum), generics and for-each loops. GWT itself even uses generics for the asynchronous calls, so that the AsyncCallback interface now accepts a type parameter which is used later for the onSuccess callback method.

I think that the beautiful part of it all is that for those of us who are already used to the new syntax features, this new release makes GWT development feel even smoother than before.

A word of warning though: from my experience it seems that the milestone doesn’t work well under Mac OS X with the new developers’ preview of Java 6. If you are in this category, you’ll have to rollback your version to the supplied Java 5 implementation.