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Exam Notes – Pivotal Certified Spring Professional
Study materials and an exam review for Pivotal Certified Spring Professional Exam 4.2, with flashcards and study notes.
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Singleton Pattern Pitfalls
Singleton, one of the most popular design patterns has a lot of serious drawbacks and some even consider it an anti-pattern. What are the pitfalls of the famous pattern?
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Exam Notes: Pivotal Certified Spring Web Application Developer
Study materials and an exam review for Pivotal Certified Spring Web Application Developer Exam 4.2, with flash-cards and study notes.
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Field Dependency Injection Considered Harmful
Field injection is a very popular practice in Dependency Injection frameworks, such as Spring. It has, however, several serious trade-offs and should generally be avoided.
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Telescoping Constructor Pattern alternatives
Telescoping constructor pattern is quite common practice. It has, however, some shortcomings. What are the alternative approaches and when should you use them?
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Learning IntelliJ IDEA keyboard shortcuts
Learning shortcut keys of your favorite IDE can greatly boost your programming productivity. There is a trick to learn IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts quicker than just by memorizing them one by one.
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Stop using Javadoc @author tag
Are you still using @author Javadoc tag? Maybe it's time to reconsider. Let's discuss why the tag may be actually harmful and why you should stop using it.
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Should I explicitly declare serialVersionUID?
Should you explicitly declare serialVersionUID or leave it to be automatically generated?
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Break the Java Generics Naming Convention?
Descriptive names improve readability and reduce confusion. Yet official Java conventions restrict generic type names to a single letter — should you stick to it?
