Java
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Multiple Dispatch: Julia’s Different Answer to the Expression Problem
Sealed interfaces close the type list. Julia opens it, and the operation list, at once. A recent piece on this…
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Understanding Java AtomicInteger with an Example
When multiple threads access and modify the same variable, unexpected results can occur due to race conditions. A simple int…
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Understanding Java Virtual Threads with Example
Virtual Threads are one of the most important improvements to Java concurrency in recent years. They make it possible to…
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Checked Exceptions: The Language Design Debate Java Never Resolved
Why Java stands almost alone among mainstream languages in forcing you to declare or catch certain exceptions, the criticism that…
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Java’s Sealed Classes Meet the Visitor Pattern
Replacing a classic GoF pattern with pattern matching: a before and after refactor of a Visitor hierarchy, collapsed into a…
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How to Switch Between AI Models Automatically
AI applications do not always need the same language model for every request. A simple factual question may only require…
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Intelligent Document Processing with Apache Camel, Docling & LangChain4j
Enterprise applications often need to process large numbers of documents such as PDFs, invoices, manuals, reports, and policy documents. Extracting…
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LLM Tool Call Reasoning with Embabel AI
Large language models become significantly more useful when they can interact with external tools instead of only generating text. A…
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Introduction to HyDE: Hypothetical Document Embeddings for RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become one of the most common approaches for building AI applications that need to work with…
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