http://www.javaspecialists.eu The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter features advanced articles and tips surrounding the Java Programming Language en Copyright 2000-2010, Dr Heinz Max Kabutz Dr Heinz Kabutz Dr Heinz Kabutz 1440 http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue210.html Wed, 22 May 2013 In this newsletter we investigate what can go wrong when we call methods from constructors, showing examples from the JDK, Glassfish, Spring Framework and some other well known frameworks.. http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue209.html Thu, 11 Apr 2013 Unicode is the most important computing industry standard for representation and handling of text, no matter which of the world's writing systems is used. This newsletter discusses some selected features of Unicode, and how they might be dealt with in Java. http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue208.html Sun, 31 Mar 2013 How can you set a field at point of declaration if its constructor throws a checked exception? http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue207.html Thu, 27 Dec 2012 The trend of marking parameters and local variables as "final" does not really enhance your code, nor does it make it more secure. http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue206.html Tue, 13 Nov 2012 We present a new type of ExecutorService that allows users to "stripe" their execution in such a way that all tasks belonging to one stripe are executed in-order. http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue205.html Mon, 27 Aug 2012 Rule Based Programming, a declarative programming paradigm, is based on logical patterns to select data and associate it with processing instructions. This is a more indirect method than the sequential execution steps of an imperative programming language.