A couple of weeks ago a reader asked me for a Java program to read command-line input from the user and then display the smallest value the user has entered. He wanted to use digit ‘0’ to indicate that the user is done entering the data and not to include 0 in the list of […]
Joseph Darcy, the lead of Project Coin, formally announced the approved changes to the Java language to be included in JDK 7. Although there was no major change announced, the announced enhancements will improve program readability. Following are few changes that I am glad they are going to incorporate in JDK7.
If you need to search for a phrase or a string in a text file Java regular expression is the easiest way to accomplish this task. Here is a simple example that demonstrates how you can use Java regular expression to find a string or a phrase in a text file.
Eclipse is my favorite Java IDE. To manage projects Eclipse uses ‘Workspaces’. Workspace is basically a folder on your disk where your project files are stored. To work on a project you load its workspace in Eclipse. Eclipse remembers the workspaces you worked on previously. A drop down list of all (configurable) previous workspaces is […]
My post about Java regular expression gets a lot of hits daily. Someone commented that the regular expression I included in that post does not block certain invalid email addresses. So I updated the Java regular expression to validate email address. I am pretty sure that the following Java regular expression will validate any email […]
If you need to read the properties file in your Spring application all you need is to configure a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer bean in your application context.The following example shows how to read property values from a properties file named config.properties. This file needs to be in your classpath so Spring can find it. Let’s begin by […]
In Spring MVC, DispatcherServlet relies on handler mapping to determine which controller the request should be sent to. All handler mapping classes in Spring implement org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerMapping interface. Spring distribution contains following four implementation of HandlerMapping interface. BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping SimpleUrlHandlerMapping ControllerClassNameHandlerMappign CommonsPathMapHandlerMapping BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping is the simplest of all and DispatcherServlet looks for this mapping by default. You […]
Today I’ll show you how to extract last few characters (a substring) from a string in Java. Here is the code to do this.
Maven has made compiling Java projects almost an effortless job. You no longer need to worry about placing all the required class files in your classpath. All you have to do is to include dependencies in your POM file and Maven takes care of the rest. It automatically downloads the jar file that your project […]
One of the welcome additions to Java language in Java 5 release is the static import declaration. static import works in the same way as traditional import declaration but it imports only the static members of a class. Traditional import declaration looks like this import java.util.*; The above statement will import all the classes under […]