What makes a Java developer “well-grounded”? We believe that in the coming years, one of the most important skills a developer needs is a sense of perspective. Perspective is what enables a developer to relate their day-to-day work and self-development to the large-scale trends in Java, other JVM languages and …
This presentation is based on the experience on how to design a useful REST API. REST is generally a very loose collection of principals that can be interpreted in many ways, so this talk would describe a more concrete idea of what a REST-ful API should look like. In addition, …
Lambdas is going to be the biggest new feature in Java SE 8. This presentation will show you the need for lambdas, the feature in itself, and also how adding lambdas to Java makes makes it necessary to solve the problem of library evolution. Also you get to see how …
This Struts 2 tutorial episode explains the concept of namespaces when mapping Struts 2 actions. We’ll configure a namespace, and also understand the default “/” namespace.
People write toy Java benchmarks all the time. Nearly always they “get it wrong” – wrong in the sense that the code they write doesn’t measure what they think it does. Oh, it measures something all right – just not what they want.
The Generics feature of the Java language was intended to bring overall type safety to Java. This session starts at the basics of Generics and looks at its capabilities. It presents some of the under-the-hood details of Generics implementation and then delves into some of the changes to Java libraries …
