Optionals
I have to confess, I was sceptical when I first read about the new Optional class that was being introduced in Java 8 way back when. Its only over the last few years I have come to really appreciate...
View ArticleNew Look Java Magazine
The official Java magazine from Oracle has received a new look in the form of switching from a heavy PDF based production to a more responsive single page HTML publication. This is fantastic news for...
View ArticleProcedural Terrain With Java – part 1
Every year, around Christmas time I always get a hankering to write some 3D terrain rendering code. Not so much the actual rendering engine, that part has already been done with 3D APIs such as OpenGL...
View ArticleProcedural Terrain With Java – part 2
So last time we got our Java application up and running with a scene displayed using the JMonkeyEngine (JME) game engine. This time, we’re going to extend that to generate some procedural terrain. We...
View ArticleProcedural Terrain Update
So I started a series before Christmas on generating and rendering procedural terrain at runtime. Between one thing and another, including ending up in hospital having surgery for appendicitis, I...
View ArticleSimple C++ Project Setup With CMake
As a Java developer, I wanted to dabble with a C++ project, something I’ve not done for a while. I was looking into how to structure my project with a view to getting started quickly, but ensuring...
View ArticleWhy C++ ?
I made mention of my foray into the world of C++, and was asked why I was interested in doing so given all the Java work I do. The best answer I can give is based on a comment which I think was made...
View ArticleIntroduction to Jackson Serializers
Jackson is a framework that provides the means to read and write objects to and from JSON. Typically, it tries to use built in support for common classes and simple types. It will also use a default...
View ArticleInherited Jackson Serializers
Looking at the Jackson Serializer post, it does introduce a particular code smell as it uses if statements to check the type of object and take a different action based on that type. Normally, that is...
View ArticleCreating a simple OSGI Bundle By Hand
As a bit of an experiment I tried to create an OSGI Bundle by hand and run it with Apache Felix. OSGI is a specification for building modular Java applications. Like many things Java it is based on a...
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