Java 7 is here – but it’s lacking the dolphin’s grace

Well, after 5 years and the setting of the Sun, Java SE 1.7 (originally code-named “dolphin”) has finally been released. Joyous celebrations from the land of Duke.

Java concurrency links

There is lots of information on the Web about concurrent programming with Java (or with other languages on the JVM). This post is a list of links I have found helpful and/or interesting.

Switching to Java JDK 6u10

I’ve been using 6u10 beta for a while and keeping 6u3 as my main JDK. It’s also the default JDK for NetBeans but now that update 10 of Mustang is out of beta, it’s time for me to ditch 6u3 and swtich to 6u10 final.

“generic” types: what’s in a name?

I’ve been stumbling over Java’s generic types for a while now…  I think I finally understand what my problem is:

They should be called specific types, or parametrised collections!

Project: Dvorcode

I’ve just finished hacking together a simple little program to transcode my “dvorcodes” for when entering on a QWERTY keyboard. I’ve created a new project on SourceForge and I’ve uploaded the code and a pair of pre-compiled executable JARs (one for Java 5 and also a re-worked version that’s been tested on Java 1.4.2).