The NIO.2 (“New Input/Output 2”) is a new API introduced in JDK 7 to operate more efficiently and uniformly on file systems. This new API covers many file and directory-specific aspects, such as handling attributes and symbolic links. This article discusses one of the most straightforward aspects of NIO.2, listing directory entries using the new DirectoryStream…
The well-known Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in JDK 1.2, contains two of the most essential and widely used collections, ArrayList and Vector. Moreover, these two collections are very similar in concepts and functionality. Therefore they lend themselves well to being compared.
Java 10, released on March 2018, has introduced the new “var” syntax. This small but helpful feature allows you to declare local variables using the word “var” instead of specifying the variable type. This article is focused on describing all the essential rules about this new feature clearly and concisely.
The Stream API is one of the great features introduced in the JDK 8 release. You often use the Stream API to operate on values from standard collections, files, databases, or other data structures. However, sometimes you need to create a new stream from scratch. Furthermore, in some situations, you may need to create a…
Hi! Welcome to my new technical blog on software development! Firstly, I would like to introduce myself. I am Andrea Binello, an Italian senior developer with decades of experience in the software development field. I am not new to blogging, since I already had a blog in Italian (my mother language) about programming. However, I…