I have learned about a feature of Java that interests me. Actually, according to this web page, it's one of the shameful things about Java:

In a try/finally block, the finally code really is called in all situations. That's good, because we want to be able to do some in all cases clean-up code a lot of the times. But what happens if you 'intercept' ( Read more... )

Now that I have a little extra time, graciously granted to me because of my completion of two paper submissions (ICSE and WICSA), I thought I'd point out some cool things.

The Java standard library has at least two concurrency features that I was unaware of, and am now intrigued by.
The first feature (new in Java5) is atomic objects. Java's atomic ( Read more... )