The Class object is in fact a singleton per classloader, which explains why when you synchronize a static method (which internally synchronizes on the Class...
... Even more "interesting" is that even if two classloaders have loaded the same class from the same JAR, the two Class objects will not be equivalent. That...
Which comes back to the reason that Class does not implement hashCode() and equals() The same class name cannot be loaded more than once by the same class...
... Can be a pain, but necessary. The classloader determines what actually winds up in the class in memory, not the jar it was loaded from. Moreover, a JVMTI...
Here is a bummer corporate move.... Here <http://elvismontero.blogspot.com/2007/03/security-policies.html> is a post about a software company that has been...
... Understood, but ... a compile time error would give you that answer too! And if you really had a need to, as in your example, query with a non-Integer...
I know that my response to such asinine policies would be a quick letter of resignation followed by informing my manager that I'm taking my remaining vacation...
It seems that Thunderbird got confused applying my message filters and in the process of moving the last message from David Rosenstrauch to my STJava folder...
... Are you on IMAP or POP? I've seen TB occasionally get confused about message IDs and displaying the wrong message body, but only on IMAP accounts....
... and ... to my ... Very ... I missed this, too, but I knew you sent it because I saw the title. Replying from Yahoo. Seems the problem was I had a 361+MB...
Well, I got my own message, so I guess I'm back in business. Sorry to bug the list with this personal problem, but what a nightmare! TBird was scrambling...
... Interesting.. I had a corruption problem while running thunderbird in a vmware image. At that time it appeared to be something related to a slower than...
... First response sums it up for me: "In my opinion, one of the thing that cause the biggest security breach in a company is the dissatisfaction of the...
... I just want to add that in high-security defence and intelligence establishments rules such as these are the norm. I would say that probably, some dimwit...
I have turned down several interviews for that reason. I had a headhunter get upset because I didn't want to interview for a def job with very good pay. I...
... Pretty good; it seems you know your java beans from your fava beans, your slashers from your slashdotters. ;) Your reply on WTF thread was just ROTFLOL....
... if you are in brisbane or otherwise able to work in aussie and willing to relocate you should apply; we are hiring a whole new development team. -- ...
So I'm reading the enum chapter in the Java 5 Developer's Notebook, and I'm left with an icky taste in my mouth. This chapter left me with the feeling that...
Enums have state and methods; each enum value is an object. The biggest difference between enum objects and ordinary objects is enums are supposed to be used...
... This assessment is pretty much spot on. Switch is an escape from polymorphism. Aside from a few edge cases I find that people either think polymorphicly or...
... Ironically, in the last 'lab' in the book the authors demonstrate that enums are real objects that can have methods. They pull an example out of Java In A...