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Many times the objects in a list must be converted into some others objects, i.e. when we need to get a different list with converted object...

Preface The purpose of this article is to help my friends to better understand,  why they should spend their time learning Erlang/Scala, a...

Im saying about how to obtain request object in a web application at arbitrary point of your web tier code. Sometimes it can be very useful,...

Was a bit surprised that different thread-safe coding approaches can impact on app. logic. Suppose we have trivial auth. service like this o...

Consider multithreaded component with two methods: first one executes highly concurrent operations, e.g. put chat messages to shared concurr...

I adore to hunt for non-standard/non-documented properties/usages/features of old-good(and standard) utilities.  Lets take ReentrantReadWri...

As you may know j ava.util.concurrent.FutureTask is used to encapsulate deferred computation and the result of that compuatation. We accus...

Recently I enjoyed percflow/percflowbelow advanced instantiation modes in aspectj; but later found considerable limitation(from my point of ...

The "Chapter 7. Cancellation and Shutdown" of Java Concurrency in Practice book(as well as javadoc of ExecutorService.shutdownNo...

Perhaps, you know what InterruptedException does mean in java. In either case, let me describe it a little. Javadoc will not allow me to de...