Thursday, February 13, 2003

Doug Lea's concurrent.util package list each of the packages and their uses talk about my use of threadpool in the GUI app and its relevance to SOAP and XMLRPC applications 2:59:03 AM    comment []

Ron Hitchens is the God of NIO! his section on buffers is great...essentially, byte arrays with four characteristics capacity limit position mark and excellent first chapter on disks, disk sectors, paging in and out of kernel memory and user memory...very nicely done 1:36:27 AM    comment []

Rusty Elliotte Harold is the God of Java I/O His excellent first chapter, where he discusses the significance of bytes in InputStream and Output Stream -- how stream read() returns ints but they're ints in the range of 0-255, which is why you can tell an EOF -1 when it appears. Also, difficulties handling bytes, -- and all integer literals in Java are ints ,even when they're in byte range...talk about some of this... 3 FACTS THAT PERTAIN: 1. The byte data type is signed 2. Java always promotes bytes to ints before working on them individually. 3. Many of the methods in the stream classes return or accept as arguments ints in the range of an unsigned byte (0-255). that means there's a formula you have to apply... 1:35:03 AM    comment []

Using an Array for FIFO processing with RemoveRange describe useage in the VOIP program... 1:32:23 AM    comment []

The Right Way to process arg lists from the GREP program and BTW, I just learned that GREP stands for G ... Regular Expression Print 1:31:50 AM    comment []

JDBC class.forName() is obsolete! according to the xxx book on BEA Weblogic and Java... 1:30:14 AM    comment []