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077 "Wonderfully Disgusting Hack" 2003-09-02

In the early days of Java, the Sun Microsystems engineers still had the freedom to write hilarious comments into their code. Full Article
052 J2EE Singleton 2002-07-02

Singleton is one of the most recognizable design pattern from the Gang of Four book. We read how David Jones applies it to J2EE. Full Article
051 Java Import Statement Cleanup 2002-06-18

Import statements can get out of date quickly as we refactor our code. In this newsletter, our guest author Dr. Cay S. Horstmann shows us how we can clean up our import statements. Full Article
049 Doclet for Finding Missing Comments 2002-06-05

Another use of JavaDoc is to use the engine to find where comments are missing from our code. Full Article
046 "The Compiler Team Is Writing Useless Code Agai... 2002-05-05

We found a gem in Java 1.3, where a simple typo resulted in a strange static initializer method. Full Article
039 Why I Don't Read Your Code Comments ... 2002-01-17

In this, our most misunderstood newsletter, I wax lyrically about the poor quality of comments in code. Often the comments are not in sync with what the code does. Trust them at your own risk. Full Article
037 Checking That Your Classpath Is Valid 2001-12-13

One of the challenges Java programmers had in the early days was to get the classpath right. In this newsletter, Sydney Redelinghuys presents some ideas on how to make sure that all the entries point to actual files. Full Article
035 Doclets to Find Bad Code 2001-11-17

The JavaDoc tool can do more than just generate HTML documentation for our Java classes. We can also write our own "Doclets" to scan the source code in our project. In this newsletter we look at how we can (ab)use JavaDoc to look for classes with non-private fields. Full Article

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The JavaSpecialists' Newsletter

Celebrating 24 years of publication, enjoyed in over 155 countries by 70,000 of the world's top Java programmers and spanning over 300 specialist Java articles.

Newsletter Archive (Software Engineering)

077 "Wonderfully Disgusting Hack" 2003-09-02

052 J2EE Singleton 2002-07-02

051 Java Import Statement Cleanup 2002-06-18

049 Doclet for Finding Missing Comments 2002-06-05

046 "The Compiler Team Is Writing Useless Code Agai... 2002-05-05

039 Why I Don't Read Your Code Comments ... 2002-01-17

037 Checking That Your Classpath Is Valid 2001-12-13

035 Doclets to Find Bad Code 2001-11-17

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