Q: Will the following Java program compile? Run without exceptions? If so, what does it print? import javax.swing.*; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { JButton button = new JButton("OK"); ...

I started this blog 7 days ago but didn't finish it on time. I'm finishing it up now. The current date will be November 13, 2009 starting from the next sentence. "Relentless reduction of complexity" is a phrase I picked up from Alex Payne's keynote...

Alex Miller: Apparently Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to JDK 7 at Devoxx today: I am, well, surprised. Having commented on closures in Java somewhat verbosely in the past, I don't have any words left in me about this topic,...

... I wonder where I can find a text/html decoder? (Firefox showed this dialog box after a typical "A plugin for some media content on this page is not installed, would you like to search for a plugin?" dialog box.)

It has been 1267 days since Java Concurrency in Practice was published. I trust that all self-respecting Java programmers have read the book cover-to-cover. Today's Friday Quiz is a concurrency one. Q: Will the following Java class compile? Run...