Enum Singleton

If you consider a singleton for solving a problem, you really should think again if it is the correct solution or if you are coding the equivalent of global variable. If you still want to use the singleton approach, ask your colleagues if this would be a good approach. If they agree, I might have [...]

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Sun, IBM and Oracle

When I first read the then news of IBM considering to buy Sun I was a little worried. What would it mean to my favorite programming language java? IBM is a strong player in the JCP and with Eclipse they made a IDE available that is constantly among the two most used and the three [...]

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