Category Archives: Java

Solution to “Error starting modern compiler”

Right. So then I had the chance to open a old project in in eclipse today. From an old workspace. Tests still ran, code looked just as bad as badass as before. Running the clean-build target through ant produced a … Continue reading

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Executing native processes from Java

This is kind of a coincidence. Today I got contacted by a friend, wondering how to run a native Windows program from within Java. I said as I usually do: Google it. Not liking to get that served myself, I … Continue reading

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Managing Memory in Java

Getting memory management to play along in Java is a whole other chapter than it was in C and C++. And by that I mean simpler and better. Though a few people would still like to allocate and deallocate memory … Continue reading

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Specifying what to get, or post

I’ve noticed that I generally don’t post too much on this blog/journal/whatever. This partly comes from the fact that I suspect everyone to already know what I do, or find out. Thus I avoid public ridicule if I don’t write … Continue reading

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Java 7 tidbits

Yesterday I spent some time listening to the presentation Chet Haase on Java FX, Update N and JDK 7. This contains quite a lot of promises, promising promises and tentative promises. It left me rather excited at the future (and … Continue reading

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Java Resources

A couple of my co-workers attending Heinz Kabutz’ Java course in Oslo this week. After they came back, talk drifted in on resources for a minute. Parsing my feeds (Google Reader, hint, hint) brought forth Kabutz’ newsletter and Sun’s Core … Continue reading

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Generating Class-Path in Jar Manifest with Ant

I’ve recently started to touch Ant. Well, I’ve used it before, but only on the ant clean all level. Now I wanted to write a small build script for a tiny project. Which went off easily enough with the help … Continue reading

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Mule talk at javaBin Bergen

Dropped by yesterday and listened to Rune Peter Bjørnstad (Bouvet) talk about Mule. It came across as a simple and flexible message bus. Running by itself or in another server, there seemed to be few things it couldn’t do. One … Continue reading

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