The Java programming language and anything related to the Java ecosystem
SLF4J (www.slf4j.org) is a logging “facade” library that is very popular among Java developers because it is used by a large number of frameworks and libraries. SLF4J has recently been updated to version 2.0.x. In this article I am going to explain the new features of SLF4J 2.x.
The NIO.2 (“New Input/Output 2”) is a new API introduced in Java 7 to operate on file systems more efficiently and uniformly. This new API covers many file and directory specific aspects, such as handling attributes and symbolic links. This article talks about one of the simplest aspects, the listing of directory entries using the…
The well known Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in JDK 1.2, contains two basic and widely used collections: ArrayList and Vector. These two collections are very similar in terms of concepts and functionality, therefore they lend themselves well to being compared. In this short article I am going to describe the similarities and also the…
Java 10, released on March 2018, has introduced the new “var” syntax, a small but useful feature that allows you to declare local variables using the word “var” instead of specifying the type of the variable. This articles is focused on describing all the important rules about this new feature in a clear and concise…
The Stream API is one of the great features introduced in the JDK 8 release. Most of the time you use the Stream API to operate on values that come from standard collections, files, databases or other data structures. However, sometimes you need to create a new stream from scratch and in some situations, as a…