I recently spent an exhausting day tracking down a memory leak problem. It wasn’t the hours and hours working out a recipe to reproduce the problem that finally got to me. It wasn’t finally realising that the problem was being caused by a third party library (not my fault!) that finally got to me.
Archive for February, 2004
Talking Tiger, generically speaking
# 2004-02-16 14:52:54 -0500 | Java | 4 CommentsYou are going to have to learn to read Generics code, and maybe even how to write your own Generic classes. Hopefully this article will push those code-grokking neurons in the right direction.
JSP is dead, long live JSP (or, EL and tag injection)
# 2004-02-12 17:30:40 -0500 | Java | 3 CommentsI gave a presentation to the local JUG last night, titled “JSP is dead; long live JSP”. I’ve always had a love-hate-hold-the-love relationship with JSP, and have recommended alternate technologies at every opportunity.
Groking Enum (aka Enum<E extends Enum<E>>)
# 2004-02-09 11:34:06 -0500 | Java | 14 CommentsMy explorations of the new enum facility in Tiger, and java.lang.Enum<E extends Enum<E>>.