(unless you really override Object.equals(), of course). I've stumbled upon a rather curious Stack Overflow question by user Frank: Why does Java's Area#equals method not override Object#equals? Interestingly, there is a Area.equals(Area) method which really takes an Area argument, instead of a Object argument as declared in Object.equals(). This leads to rather nasty behaviour, as … Continue reading Thou Shalt Not Name Thy Method “Equals”
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Top 10 Easy Performance Optimisations in Java
There has been a lot of hype about the buzzword "web scale", and people are going through lengths of reorganising their application architecture to get their systems to "scale". But what is scaling, and how can we make sure that we can scale? Different aspects of scaling The hype mentioned above is mostly about scaling … Continue reading Top 10 Easy Performance Optimisations in Java
Java Collections API Quirks
So we tend to think we've seen it all, when it comes to the Java Collections API. We know our ways around Lists, Sets, Maps, Iterables, Iterators. We're ready for Java 8's Collections API enhancements. But then, every once in a while, we stumble upon one of these weird quirks that originate from the depths … Continue reading Java Collections API Quirks