Don't we all remember the days when we programmed C or C++? You had to use new and delete to explicitly create and remove objects. Sometimes you even had to malloc() an amount of memory. With all these constructs you had to take special care that you cleaned up afterwards, else you were leaking memory.
(more...)

Filed under Java, Performance | 10 Comments »

In a previous blog I described some ways to make sure your resources are closed properly. The examples I gave contained a bug and may cause that resources are still not properly closed (as pointed out by Anonymous and my colleague here on my project). Here is what was wrong with it..

(more...)

Filed under Java | 2 Comments »