We discuss some of the most common design patterns in Java and how they can help you solve common coding issues. Learn more. A design pattern is a well-established and documented solution to a common ...

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In of this three-part series introducing design patterns, I referred to Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Design. This classic was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph ...

The Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology is a key part of both the Java 2 Platform's Standard Edition (J2SE) 5 and Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Support for this standard is now required in ...

The Java language and framework make robust applications easier to create, while reducing development time. But runtime performance depends on the underlying JVM. The software approach works almost ...

A friend of mine — a medical doctor, no less — once told me that he convinced a friend to take a college exam for him. Someone who takes the place of someone else is known as a proxy. Unfortunately ...

Have you ever been on a project in which all of your team members have just gone through an intense week of design pattern training? It's painful, as the project ends up becoming some type of sadistic ...