Tag Archives: clone

Akka Essentials Book Review

Posted on 14 Feb 2013 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Recently I had the opportunity to read the Akka Essentials book. This post is a brief review of this publication. Hope you enjoy. The only good thing about this book is that it is short. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but … Continue reading →

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Defensive object copies in java and how scala avoids it

Posted on 23 Aug 2012 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

In one word: immutability. But read on for the whole history =) In another, old post, I wrote about the usage a primitive long value instead of Date objects in attributes. This kind of thing is usually called defensive copy, … Continue reading →

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Why not use java clone method

Posted on 26 Aug 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

The Java Language is very nice. It has a lot of useful features and APIs. But it isn’t perfect. There are a lot of bad design decisions that, due to the decision of maintaining full backwards compatibility, stays as they … Continue reading →

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