Java
Calendar getDisplayName() JDK 6.0 vs JDK 1.5.0
If you have somehow used jdk6.0 while developing your application that uses Calendar API of java.util.Calendar, and have used getDisplayName method to extract the display names for fields of the calendar, specific to your desired style and locale, and then had to compile your application with jdk1.5.0 only to realize that compiler spits swear words [...]
Java Debug 101
Author: Apurba Nath
Anyone who has done some serious development knows about debugging. There is a lot of stuff that goes under the hood for debugging, this blog takes a look at some of these. After reading this blog the reader may have a better understanding of the reason behind rare but weird errors about the “line number information not being present” when we try setting a break point. To keep things simple I am going to cover only the basics and will oversimplify and generalize without much discretion.
There are two parties in debugging, one the program which is running and the other which is issuing debugging commands to it.
Internationalization with Java
The main idea of the presentation is not to discuss how Internationalization is done in Java but to highlight some of the problems which one comes across while developing an internationalized application in Java. Most of the observations listed below are based on the personal experience while trying to internationalize a Java based Web Application. [...]