JavaBlogging

Recently I wrote a post about a catalyst method in Java – an issue where an existence of a method that is never actually invoked can affect the code execution. The trick was that the way compiler created bytecode for static method was ambiguous for this given code snippet and therefore JVM resolved it incorrectly.
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This post is inspired by an entry on twofoos.org blog.
Imagine that you have a code that invokes a method – lets call it ‘A’. Now is it possible that by adding another method (B) to the code I can make that invocation redirect to executing B instead of A? Sure! It’s simple stuff – [...]

In one of the first posts on this blog I have discussed the problem of type checking (or lack of it) in some of Java collections even when using generics. Today I want to show you a similar issue that can break the type safety in your code. It’s a problem that can cause a [...]