I was very surprised to read so many negative and incorrect claims about Java EE in the recent Gartner's Market Guide for Application Platforms.

Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today's requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the sep... (more…)

This blog post is about several approaches of File IO, benchmark and explanation of how each approach works. (more…)

Java is a safe programming language and prevents programmer from doing a lot of stupid mistakes, most of which based on memory management. But, there is a way to do such mistakes intentionally, using Unsafe class.

This gets interesting when you find your way into a mail server, says dev who found it... (more…)