Sun's End-Of-Life Policy:
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/eol.policy.html
Java 5.0 End of Service Life = October 30, 2009
But, Customers seeking longer standard support and maintenance
periods for each release family are encouraged to migrate to Java SE
for Business.
Meaning...
Java 1.4
Java 5 has now reached its End Of Service Life and is no longer supported by
Sun, [...]
I wish I could use Java 5.:-[
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Regarding closing JDBC resources when exceptions happen...
I like to have one close in the 'finally' block, but execute only when
the reference isn't null. (Yes, that's evil -- but JDBC's
SQLException is evil.)
What I'd like to do is to add any 'close()' SQLException to the
exception that may
I like the beauty and simplicity of completely empty catch blocks. ;-
OK, some developers, to comply with corporate documentation
standards, put comments there. ;-
(Reality is that I'll usually wrap checked exceptions in
RuntimeExceptions at a low level, and then catch Exception at the top
While lower cost, improved productivity, and reducing bug counts don’t
seem sufficient to motivate most businesses to change their software
development practices significantly, I’m thinking that the shift to
multi-core CPUs may force a sufficient crisis within the next few
years that something
It depends on your application, of course. For most CRUD-like
business applications, I'd expect little benefit. As schemas become
complex, like mapping applications... When data from a significant
number of different tables is needed to accomplish a transaction,
then OODBs have a big
In my (not so humble) opinion...
Relational Databases have the better ad-hoc query (and tool support)
story.
That's important to the CxOs who make these decisions.
Object Databases give performance, development and maintainability
benefits of an order of magnitude or more. But these are
Slashdot article, MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans
Refactoring
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/14/1921243
quote
Gary Pendergast writes
Monty Widenius, the 'father' of MySQL, has created the the Open
Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for
I vote a +1 Whapush! for whipping sounds!
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To take the discussion in a more serious direction...
--- Michael Neale michael.ne...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] I think freeze was more for dynamic languages like ruby and
groovy [...]
Yes, the freeze concept seems more appropriate for dynamically typed
languages than for statically typed
I've found that FindBugs has an optional rule to suggest where 'final'
can be added to parameters and local variables. It's in the
controversial subset. (...along with a rule that suggests removing
'final' when not needed -- IE: all the places the first rule suggested
adding it. So it's a tool
After listening to recent episodes, I've been working my way back to
earlier episodes, and I keep tripping over discussions of Matthias
Ernst's Chaining: A Modest Language Proposal -- which would make the
compiler enable a method chaining / fluid interface convention on
methods returning the void
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