As an Open Source developer, I'm used to trying to support as many reasonable things for my users as possible. However, this has never included support for Java 5, which itself is hardly supported by popular Java vendors anymore. Hence jOOQ requires Java 6 or more to compile and run. There is now an interesting initiative … Continue reading Jenkins (and Others) about Dropping Support for Java 5
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Java’s Arrays.asList(…) is underused
Writing nice and concise code is feasible in Java as well, not only in those hyped, new, and fancy scripting languages. Here are some examples on how to use the Java 5 varargs Arrays.asList() method in nice contexts: Run a block for n constant values // If you have VAL_A, VAL_B, VAL_C and you want … Continue reading Java’s Arrays.asList(…) is underused