A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...

For those unaware, Minecraft realms are a subscription-based service using which players can get their private servers. They are excellent for playing with friends. There are many different custom ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java collection classes allow a developer to keep track of contained items in one of two ways, ...

Google Guava has much to offer the Java developer working with J2SE 5, Java SE 6, or Java SE 7. The older the version of these being used, the more useful Guava can be. Although Java SE 7 brings ...

While the Hashtable was part of the initial Java release over two decades ago, the HashMap is the correct key-value store to use today. One key HashMap vs. Hashtable difference is the fact that the ...