I have previously blogged on how Groovy and ActionScript provide demonstrations of switching on Strings functionality that has not been available in Java. JDK 7 changes this for Java by ...

The Long.parseLong() method returns a long primitive, not a wrapper.; The Long.parseLong() method uses the Long class, which is semantically correct. The Long.parseLong() method does not require ...

Most Java programmers have used the java.util.StringTokenizer class at some time or another. It is a handy class that basically tokenizes (breaks) the input string based on a separator, and ...