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It is claimed in this article that: one of the major reasons for introducing default methods in interfaces is to enhance the Collections API in Java 8 to support lambda expressions.I could

With Java 8 streams, it seems Functional Programming has won. Long live statelessness and recursion! Reality is a bit more nuanced: as always in software programming, it depends. I believe that the more tools in your toolbelt, the better it is. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In Functional Programming, every function needs to be pure: output only depends on input, and there are no side-effects. For this reason, Java methods to create infinite streams are not u

An intro guide to using Hazelcast in Java – and a look at the cluster, client and distributed map.

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Learn to compare two LocalDate instances to find out which date represents an older date. LocalDate class is part of java.time package added in Java 8.

Java Collections framework is consist of the interfaces and classes which helps in working with different types of collections such as lists, sets, maps, stacks and queues etc.

The Spring MVC framework is one of the most popular Java frameworks for developing web applications. If you have been working in Java and t…

Courses relevant to concurrency

Follow the steps in this blog to setup the Payara Server in IntelliJ for running your web apps.

Monica Beckwith talks about how she followed the recipes appearing in Doug Lea’s cookbook and applied them to SPEC JBB, and report her findings. Key takeaways: an introduction to relaxed memory consistency as implemented in Java, a presentation of their performance analysis methodology, and a detailed report on the performance implications of memory barriers.

Payara Platform 5 brought with it an implementation of Servlet 4.0, which itself contains support for HTTP/2. HTTP/2 support in Java has been fairly obscure for JDK 8 users, causing issues for many. All Payara Server 5 versions before 5.183 have both HTTP/2 and HTTP/2 server push enabled by default.

Many junior developers dream of making it at one of the larger tech companies, but, to be honest with you, getting your first job is never…

This is one of the common technical interview questions which are asked to entry-level programmers and software engineers. There are also a…