Tag Archive | "Java"

One Java Tip: “And That’s (not) Final!”

August 2, 2007 No comments yet

Something to watch out for with initialization code is that “final” has three different meanings depending on where it’s used, and it’s easy to get confused. For example, a common mistake is that setting a Collection to final doesn’t make the contents immutable, only the reference to the collection is immutable.

Overburdened Software Developers?

March 8, 2007 Comments Off

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Monetary Amounts in Java — Feedback Wanted

February 1, 2007 No comments yet

Last week I submitted two patches to the TimeAndMoney open source project on SourceForge (timeandmoney.domainlanguage.com/). One patch has to do with localization of money. The other patch has to do with the persistence of money, via Hibernate, to/from a database (with examples for both MS SQL, and Oracle).


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