This talk describes the Java Memory Model and how it affects the ways concurrent software should be written. Recent changes to the memory model, which were incorporated into JDK 5, redefined the semantics of threads, synchronization, volatile variables, and final fields. The new memory model provides efficient and provably correct …
Ola Bini is a Swedish developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been one of the core developers for JRuby since 2006 and is the author of the APress book Practical JRuby on Rails. He has much experience with Java, Ruby and LISP, and has been involved …
Apple’s iPhone has resulted in significant interest from users and developers alike. Apple’s SDK for the iPhone is based on Objective-C as the development language as well as Cocoa for the GUI. Unfortunately Apple’s license agreement for the iPhone SDK prohibits the porting of the Java virtual machine to the …
This tutorial takes you through the various steps involved in installing MySQL and the MySQL GUI tools. Then I install the Java Development Toolkit v 1.6 Update 10 (JDK). After JDK installation, I then extract the Hibernate Core and Hibernate Annotations modules, plucking out the pertinent JAR files, and placing …
This tutorial is designed to teach beginning Java programmers how to save Java objects to disk files using XML or object serialization.
This tutorial is designed to teach Java programmers how to use the Eclipse Java Debugger. If you have completed the Total Beginners tutorial or have some basic familiarity with Eclipse and Java, then this tutorial is for you. No prior experience with the debugger is needed. More Eclipse tutorials on …