Category: Java

Effectively Sealed Classes in Java

Published August 14, 2018

Disclaimer: this article was written in 2018, when we could only dream about seeing sealed interfaces in Java. Sealed interfaces were introduced in JDK17 and…

Hamming Error Correction with Java and Vavr – part 3

Published August 11, 2018

Since there was some interest in seeing the same implemented in Java, in this article, we’ll see how we can implement the same Hamming encoder/decoder using Java and the Vavr library.

Previous articles from the series:

Hamming Error Correction with Kotlin – part 1

Hamming Error Correction with Kotlin – part 2

Leveraging Lambda Expressions for Lazy Evaluation in Java

Published July 25, 2018

In Java, the potential of lazy evaluation is quite neglected (actually, at the language level, it’s pretty much limited to the implementation of minimal evaluation) – advanced languages like Scala, for example, differentiate between call-by-value and call-by-name calls, or introduce dedicated keywords like lazy.