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Lombok usage in large enterprises

Verbosity of Java Java is a verbose language. No one disputes it. Despite the clunky nature of the language syntax, it still is the language of choice in most enterprises. If you work in the services industry or are a technology consultant, chances are that you have to work with...

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Project Euler #79: Passcode Derrivation (using Lambdas)

I’ve been solving Project Euler for years and I avoid posting solutions online as far as possible but this problem is old enough that it shouldn’t be a problem. Plus, the problem statement interests me enough to write a functional solution using the new Java 8 Lambdas that I’ve been...

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Set Java Home to a specific version on Mac

Installing Oracle’s version of Java on your machine does (for most machines I’ve encountered) add a Java Home system variable. Rarely however it doesn’t work on some machines. Such folks are recommended to add the path themselves. On a Mac, you can do this by using the following export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)...

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Java 8: Generic Method Returns with Lambdas and Strategy Design Pattern implementation

With the introduction of Functional Programming in Java 8 new possibilities have opened up. One use case I recently encountered was that of processing JSONs to return data inside them. Let us, for the sake of argument, say the data in an element could be one of the following: An...

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WildFly: Server Side Variables/JNDI Custom Resources

As you probably know, Oracle stopped development of Glassfish’s commercial version and in doing so, prompted others to move. News of Glassfish being dead is greatly exaggerated according to some but myself being one who was already not happy with Glassfish’s Open Source version, steps were taken to move to...

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Eclipse Plugin Development: Project Icon Overlay

If you’re trying to create a Custom Project in Eclipse, you’ll eventually come to read a beautiful blog post over at Hidden Clause that documents quite well how to overlay your icon over Eclipse’s default folder icon to get the icon of your choice. If you’re default project is an...

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Eclipse Plugin Development: Attaching Sources

As a developer, I like to look at the source code for the libraries I use in order to understand if what I am doing is the best way to implement it or not. Though Eclipse, by default, comes with features to develop plugins, it doesn’t come with the source...

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Glassfish JNDI Custom Resource: Reading Primitives

Custom resources allow you to store server side values that are available to different J2EE applications on your server. This is an extremely useful feature that one should use. Head on over to the Glassfish admin panel (should be at localhost:4848 for most of you), go to Resources > JNDI...

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