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.
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Talking Tiger, generically speaking
February 16, 2004 – 2:52 pm
You 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)
February 12, 2004 – 5:30 pm
I 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>>)
February 9, 2004 – 11:34 am
My explorations of the new enum facility in Tiger, and java.lang.Enum<E extends Enum<E>>.
