by Sven Woltmann – April 8, 2020
Sooner or later, Java developers have to deal with the abstract data type queue, deque, and stack. This article explains the basic functionality of these data structures and gives a detailed overview of all implementations available in the JDK. Numerous code examples should make it easier for you to understand. In detail, the article answers …
by Sven Woltmann – March 17, 2020
As a Java programmer, I work on various projects based on different Java versions, especially since the transition to the six-month release cycle. From time to time, I also have a piece of Java code that I want to try out on different Java versions – on the command line without having to click through …
by Sven Woltmann – March 11, 2020
I am currently reading the book “The Pragmatic Programmer” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. In this book, the authors give the following task: Which of these “impossible” things can happen? […]3. In C++: a = 2; b = 3; if (a + b != 5) exit(1); […] One of the correct answers is 3. …
by Sven Woltmann – February 26, 2020
In this article, I show you, using an example, how the Java ByteBuffer works, and what precisely the Methoden flip() and compact() do. The article answers the following questions: What is a ByteBuffer, and what do you need it for? How do you create a ByteBuffer? What do the values position, limit, and capacity mean? …
by Sven Woltmann – February 26, 2020
The previous five parts of this article series covered reading and writing files, directory and file path construction, directory and file operations, and writing and reading structured data. In today’s part, I explain the NIO classes FileChannel and ByteBuffer introduced in Java 1.4 with JSR 51 (“New I/O APIs for the JavaTM Platform”). Moreover, I …
by Sven Woltmann – February 12, 2020
In the first four parts of this article series, we covered reading and writing files, directory and file path construction, and directory and file operations. Up to now, we have only read and written byte arrays and Strings. In this fifth part, you will learn how to write and read structured data with DataOutputStream, DataInputStream, …
by Sven Woltmann – January 29, 2020
Previous articles in this series have covered reading files with Java, writing files, and constructing directory and file paths with the File and Path classes. This fourth part describes the most important directory and file operations. It answers the following questions: How to list all files in a directory? How to search for files matching …
by Sven Woltmann – January 15, 2020
After covering file reading and writing operations in Java, this third part of the series of articles deals with how to use the classes File, Path, and Paths to construct file and directory paths – regardless of the operating system. If you have already dealt with file operations in Java, you have probably used these …
by Sven Woltmann – December 4, 2019
After the first part of the series was about reading files in Java, this second part introduces the corresponding methods for writing small and large files. The article addresses the following questions in detail: What is the easiest way to write a string or a list of strings to a text file? How to write …
by Sven Woltmann – November 21, 2019
The packages java.io and java.nio.file contain numerous classes for reading and writing files in Java. Since the introduction of the Java NIO.2 (New I/O) File API, it is easy to get lost – not only as a beginner. Since then, you can perform many file operations in several ways. This article series starts by introducing …
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