(Not So) Stupid Questions
(Not So) Stupid Questions
At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, it was suggested that "Java speaks for itself." Do you agree?...
2009-10-21
This "stupid question" is about a Struts application where the developers have made all their DAO methods static, and whether that's an appropriate design decision....
2009-01-29
This "stupid question" is about how collections are defined as only working with objects, yet a simple code example proves it's trivial to add primitives to collections....
2007-11-27
This "stupid question" is about a scenario in which an application wants to listen to events from a remote box and invoke interface methods, which implies a thread to listen for the methods. But how do you invoke those methods when all the threaded work has to be done in the thread's run() method?...
2007-11-01
This "stupid question" is about the idea of "reverse" access modifiers, meaning an annotation or other modifier that would prevent a method from making outside calls....
2007-08-16
This "stupid question" is about the concept of "Don't Repeat Yourself" programming philosophy, and whether it's really compatible with proper object-oriented programming techniques....
2007-07-12
This "stupid question" is about the difference between specifying a wildcard generic type versus not using genericized collections at all....
2007-02-20
This "stupid question" is about the ability to put a "private" access modifier on a constructor, making it unavailable to other classes....
2006-11-28
This "stupid question" is about the fact that "if (condition);" compiles, even though the erroneous semicolon makes it meaningless....
2006-10-24
This "stupid question" is about calling a superclass' constructor in your subclass' constructor and why you can only do it in your first statement....
2006-09-26
