Java was developed by Sun Micro-systems back in 1995 to function as high level programming language and serve as a computing platform. This gets regularly updated with new features and better compatibility. The latest version is Java SE 8.0 which released in 2014, March. Java has gained immense popularity while there have been various platforms to match up with the Java configurations like Java SE for Macintosh, Windows and UNIX, Java ME for Mobile Applications and Java EE for Enterprise Applications. Java is nowadays used in most of the enterprises and business units in networked a...

HashMap and other Collection types are frequently used in Java application programming. This post will explain why exception would be thrown when deleting element with Map.remove() while looping through a Map using Iterator. This issue would also occur to other Collection types such as Set, List.Below is a sample code snippet demonstrating the exception thrown.Map<String,String> map = Collections.synchronizedMap(new TreeMap<String,String>()); map.put("key1","value1");map.put("key2","value2");map.put("key3","value3"); Set<Entry<String,String>> entries = map.entrySet(); I...

CountDownLatchCountDownLatch can be used in synchronizing behavior among threads, it makes one or more threads wait for some actions in other threads to be completed. It has a property count which defines how many countDown() need to be called before other threads which called await() to be waked up. When a thread calls CountDownLatch.await(), the thread will be blocked until the value of count becomes 0. The initial value of count can be specified when creating the CountDownLatch instance. Every time when CountDownLatch.countDown() is called, the value of count will decrease by 1 until t...

OverviewIn this lesson on Stream API in Java, we will study how we can put Streams to use to write efficient and much more maintainable code. We will also write code with and without Streams so that we are able to compare the two versions.Before doing all this, we must know how to create a Stream and process it and that is what we will get started with.Introduction to StreamsWe will be starting with creating Streams. Let us get started with the Stream<T> API which enables us to play with Stream processing.Creating StreamsStreams can be created from any source like a Collection or an arra...

Do you really understand how Java does the integer comparison? OK, ignore the statements in the post title. What we are interested in is another set of comparison statements. Let's first see below code snippet.public class IntegerComparison { public static void main(String[] args) { Integer a = 127, b = 127; Integer c = 128, d = 128; System.out.println(a == b); System.out.println(c == d); }}What do you think the output will be? Are they both displaying true? You will find out the answer after reading through how Java optimizes some of the integer comparison logic.First, you need to un...

Java, the programming language developed at Sun Microsystems in the 90s and later acquired by Oracle, is the most common programming environment used today, by developers across the globe. With the diversification of applicability that accompanied the technological boom, Java updates now come as Standard Editions (SE), Enterprise Edition (EE) and Micro Edition (ME). The Java SE contains the core programming logic and platform, used for relatively smaller-scale tasks and academic purposes. Java EE is used by Java Development companies for large-scale projects. It contains additional libraries w...

What is Project Metropolis?The not so hush-hush Project Metropolis is all set to implement Java on itself – popularly known in the developer community as Java-on-Java. Oracle has released updates on its progress, and they are very encouraging.The project will focus on building a JIT (just in time) compiler that is written in Java. It is being touted as the experimental clone of JDK (Java Development Kit) 10. Work on ‘ahead of time’ compiling and Graal compiler is also in progress. This will take a significantly longer time to implement, but is a necessary factor to incre...

Most enterprises today are application centric. But the problem with the application is that their database schemas, user interfaces, programming interfaces and object models are tightly coupled and difficult to change. If you want to add a new field to a database table and you’re lucky, the change will reflect through the entire system. But often the change needs to be replicated manually across the entire system. And as applications are difficult to change, adding business rules or process to the application does not facilitate business agility. This is where layered architecture comes...