Java Serialization: Persist Your Objects
With serialization, you can serialize (persist) any Java object for future use or recreate it from an existing source.
With serialization, you can serialize (persist) any Java object for future use or recreate it from an existing source.
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Learn how to use Java annotations to discover code automatically at runtime with a ServiceLoader. This useful technique will make your life easier.
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ProGuard makes the simple yet time-consuming activities of Java code cleanup and optimization relatively trivialeven in large-scale Java development projects.
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The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.
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Did you ever get stuck having to choose between a recursive or iterative implementation? Get the answers to whether one is better than the other or whether it really matter?
Explore three of RSF's primary tenets: primacy of markup, zero server state, and correct use of POST/GET.
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Discover how to combine the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural principles with the Java EE platform to derive multitier Java EE application architecture. You will also see how the Java EE design patterns catalog provides guidance and how you can document this architecture using UML notations.
Learn how to add animated movement into your program where multiple objects chase a lead object as it moves randomly in a given environment.
Learn how to secure a web service using WS-Security. WS-Security is a specification from OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) that describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide message integrity and confidentiality.
Learn how to write a Java program to apply a blurring or softening filter to your digital photos. The amount of softening is controlled by the user with a slider.
Using Java to work with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets has never been easer with the help of the JExcel API, a Java library that provides the ability to read, write, and modify Microsoft Excel spreadsheets from within Java applications.
The Java collections framework contains classes you use to maintain collections of other objects. These collection classes have different performance and ordering properties. See how the HashMap and HashSet Classes allow objects to be added to a collection, removed from a collection, or found in roughly constant time. Discover how to use these classes and what to do to achieve good performance from them.
Learn about color distance, projecting 3D coordinates onto a 2D display plane, and edge detection. Understanding these concepts will help you to better understand modern image processing.
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Examine a new program written entirely in Java that you can use to edit the pixels in your digital photos on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
Explore Java collections framework classes that implement the SortedSet interface and how they keep a set of objects in a guaranteed order, independent of the order that they are added to the collection.
Learn how to create fully formatted Microsoft Excel workbooks at runtime. Just use Java with the help of the Apache POI projects' HSSF libraries.
Learn more about the methods and the properties of a Turtle object from Ericson's Java multimedia library.