Core Java
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Fork/Join Framework vs. Parallel Streams vs. ExecutorService: The Ultimate Fork/Join Benchmark
How does the Fork/Join framework act under different configurations? Just like the upcoming episode of Star Wars, there has been…
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Given When Then in Java
tl;dr you can use labels to clarify a given-when-then style of testing. What is given-when-then? given-when-then is a commonly used…
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Fine points of protection
In the article Some Sentences about Java I wrote that “Protected methods and fields can be used from classes in…
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The Decorator Pattern With Java 8
In a recent post I described how the decorator pattern saved my day. I gave a small code snippet which…
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Java 8 Functional Programming: Lazy Instantiation
Singletons often instantiate themselves lazily, and sometimes, if the object is heavy enough, class fields can be instantiated lazily. Generally,…
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Transforming Collections with Decorators
The Decorator Pattern Ever since first learning the programming design patterns, the decorator pattern has been my favorite. It seemed…
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Using Java 8 to Prevent Excessively Wide Logs
Some logs are there to be consumed by machines and kept forever. Other logs are there just to debug and…
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Advanced Creation of Hamcrest Matchers
Intro Last time, I went over what a Hamcrest Matcher was, how it’s used, and how to make one. In…
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Redesigning Hamcrest
I’ve done a few posts on the Hamcrest library, and I really do enjoy using it, but there are a…
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