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One of the nasty little traps a Java developer can run into occurs when Collection.contains(Object) is not used with appropriate understanding. I demonstrate this potential trap in this post. This is ...

With the sequenced collections proposal, all of the new methods declared in the new interfaces have default implementations. Sequenced collections would be added to the standard edition of Java. The ...

One of the reasons developers love Java is that the JVM performs garbage collection (GC) for them. One of the reasons system admins hate the JVM is the unpredictable nature of Java GC. A Java GC ...