Archive for January, 2007

Java, Serializable, and Externalizable

One of the features in JBuilder 2006 is peer-to-peer. JBuilder 2006 allows users to exchange messages, edit a file remotely, debug remotely, etc. (Yes, JBuilder 2007 also has peer-to-peer, but the main purpose of this particular post is to discuss a serialization issue we first discovered in implementing peer-to-peer in JB2006). The actual sending of […]

Posted by Charles Overbeck on January 24th, 2007 under Java | 1 Comment »

Basic Regular Expressions

I got an e-mail about my blog on JDK 5 features asking for details on how to replace StringBuffer with StringBuilder in a large codebase. I am going to use it as an opportunity to talk a little about regular expressions, even though:

Many, if not most of you, reading this probably already know all about […]

Posted by Charles Overbeck on January 16th, 2007 under Java | 8 Comments »

Eclipse Update Sites

I’ve been doing some research on preparing the JBuilder 2007 update site. In general, the whole Eclipse update mechanism is pretty slick. If you set it up correctly, the user only has to do Help | Software Updates | Find and Install | Search for updates of the currently installed features, and if you’ve got […]

Posted by Charles Overbeck on January 5th, 2007 under Eclipse | 2 Comments »

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