Java Garbage Collection
What is garbage collection? It deals with identifying and freeing the memory of java application that are not used for a long time. There are two type garbage collection techniques, namely explicit and...
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One of the beauties of using Java programming language is that the programmers need not worry about the memory allocation and freeing of objects. We simply declare and initialize objects and JVM (Java...
View ArticleJava 6.0 APIs
Java 6.0 introduces many Application Programming Interfaces and there are many enhancements in existing classes especially in collection APIs. The summary of changes in collection framework is listed...
View ArticleJava Authentication and Authorization Service
JAAS delivers a framework for providing a mechanism to verify the client and to ensure that the client has the permissions required to approach a secured resource for all the Java applications. The...
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Do Interfaces Really Inherit the Object Class In Java?
Well… the answer is NO. An interface can’t inherit from a class in Java, not at least directly. So, we can safely say that interfaces don’t inherit from the Object class. Okay… so how can they do that...
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Demystifying Object Serialization in Java
With implementation of object serialization (Object Persistence), a java applications can save and load the state of objects to disk or over a network. In this article we will look into...
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An Introduction to Cloning In Java
The term Cloning refers to creating duplicate copies. In software parlance it describes a number of processes that can be used to produce identical copies of an object. Java provides us an interface...
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Memory Management in Java
All objects created by a running Java application are stored in the Java Virtual Machine’s heap memory. Once objects are created they are never freed by the code itself as Java has Garbage Collection...
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RMI (Remote Method Invocation) in Java
Distributed applications are a vital necessity of our times. For creating distributed applications in Java we use RMI (Remote Method Invocation) and EJB (Enterprise Java Beans). We can access files by...
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Security Requirements of a Java Application
Securing an application now a days is not an easy task. To secure an application there are steps that we can take to mitigate the risk of security failures. In Java, security of an application is...
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