Archive for October, 2008
Copying Files Using NIO
Prior to the JDK 1.4 introduction of the NIO package a tipical file copy routine would look something like:
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public static void copyFile(File in, File out) throws Exception {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(in);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(out);
try {
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Simplify Unit Testing With Dependency Injection
After you read a bit about dependency injection you might say “So what? There isn’t much of a practical gain” and an the surface I actually agree with you, I mean how many instances are there where we really need to be able to create infinate class permutation without using subclassing? I believe the [...]
Dependency Injection Basics
Dependency Injection is a process of supplying external dependencies to componenets, changing the flow of control of the system to be inverted in comparison to the traditional architecture of software libraries. Dependency Injection builds of the concept that you should favor composition over inheritance [Effective Java Programming Language Guide, chapter 4, item 14], but [...]
