Java_Magazine_NovemberDecember_2018

12 JAVA LNG 11 JAVA LARGEST J AVA S U R V E Y^ EVER R E S U LT S PAGE 15 magazine By and for the Java community ORACLE.COM/JAVA ...

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02 //table of contents/ 67 The Decorator Design Pattern in Depth By Ian Darwin Add functionality to a class without modifying it ...

03 EDITORIAL Editor in Chief Andrew Binstock Senior Managing Editor Leslie Steere Copy Editors Lea Anne Bantsari, Karen Perkins ...

04 //from the editor/ PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB ADLER/STUDIO AT GETTY IMAGES FOR ORACLE T he largest survey ever done of Java developers ...

05 //from the editor/ shown that static analysis of code is one of the most effective ways of finding defects. I discussed stati ...

06 //letters to the editor/ Comments as Design Elements I’m so totally on board with your suggestions in your editorial “Using C ...

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08 Microservices continue to gain ground in enterprises due to the benefits for which they have been most promoted: reduced size ...

09 //events/ PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUGLAS SACHA/GETTY IMAGES CodeMash 2019 JANUARY 8–11, 2019 SANDUSKY, OHIO CodeMash is an event that ...

10 //events/ Clojure/conj 2018 NOVEMBER 29–DECEMBER 1 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA This event is expected to draw more than 400 Clojur ...

11 //events/ jSpirit JANUARY 25–27, 2019 HAUSHAM, GERMANY jSpirit is a new community- organized, nonprofit Java “uncon- ference” ...

12 //events/ QCon London MARCH 4–6, 2019, CONFERENCE MARCH 7–8, 2019, WORKSHOPS LONDON, ENGLAND Although the content has not yet ...

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14 //java present and future/ T here is a lot happening in Java, and in this issue we do our best to make the state of Java as c ...

15 //java at present/ T he data presented in the following report was taken from more than 10,500 question- naires. If you were ...

16 //java at present/ How do you plan to respond to Java’s new release cycle? While the Java 9 release brought with it some maj ...

17 //java at present/ were varied, suggesting there is still some uncertainty about how to proceed. In fact, almost 1 in 3 devel ...

18 //java at present/ What is the principal JVM language you use for your main applications? Exactly 9 in 10 JVM users are usin ...

19 //java at present/ About Your Tools Which IDE do you develop with? The graph on the next page is consistent with other recen ...