Posts Tagged ‘java’

I’ve been doing heavy refactoring over the last 48 hours to cope with epic VMware fail. One part of that has been the necessity to do something pretty tricky, and as it turns out, Apache Commons has a massive shortcut I thought I’d share with the rest of you. Imagine there are multiple tree branch […]


Version.java

03Nov10

One of the more interesting utility classes in the .NET Framework is the Version class in the System namespace. It allows for easy management and comparisons of versions stored in the standard format MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD.REVISION. Java has not traditionally placed as much importance on versions in their manifests as the .NET Framework does, so perhaps that […]


SimDK

09Mar10

A few years ago, after writing my whitepaper on VMware Infrastructure (VI) plug-ins, I was fortunate enough to visit the VMware campus and meet several of their engineers. I mentioned to them that it would be nice to have a VMware Infrastructure simulator to develop against for when a full VMware installation was not available. […]


The convention for naming packages in Java follows the principle of using the reverse order of an internet domain name. Thus, if you own the domain “wordpress.com” and create a Java library called “fubar”, the name of the package should be “com.wordpress.fubar”. But what if you do not own, nor want to own (or no […]



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