java

When using Objectify on Google App Engine, sometimes you want to introduce polymorphism after the fact. This entry shows how you can do that.

Java 8 will start complaining about the use of an underscore by itself as a variable name.

Doug Lea has proposed to promote memory fencing mechanics into implementation APIs in Java. I cover what this means.

Accessing JMX interfaces has been phenomenally difficult over the years due to some limitations. With recent Java 7 builds, that is a thing of the past.

Another batch of concurrency utilities is in the pipeline for Java as JEP-155. This is part one of a short summary of what is planned.