Darcy's post begins with the sentence: For JDK 7, I think it is high-time the platform included a class like java.util.Objects to hold commonly-written utility methods. I couldn't agree more!

However, there is one minor complexity the Java Scanner class add into the software development mix. In order to use the Java Scanner class in your code, you must either fully reference the java.util ...

Shutting server down... java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.util.UUID.equals (Object)" because "this.masterId" is null" How to reproduce? Unfortunately reproducing it involves having ...

Functional programming with a Java Consumer Sometimes programmers new to lambdas and streams get intimidated by the components defined in the java.util.function package, so I always like to remind ...

In this paper, we propose a set of heuristics to identify utility functions. With such heuristics, recommendations can be provided to move the functions to appropriate modules. In a survey conducted ...

News Java Reporting Engine Brings Utility Pricing to the Analytics Layer By John K. Waters November 5, 2013 Open-source business intelligence (BI) vendor Jaspersoft has extended the integration of its ...