Monthly Archives: May 2005

It's still too soon to upgrade to J2SE 5.0

We're a small enough company that we can make the move to J2SE 5.0 whenever we want but we're holding off right now for 3 main reasons: 1. I'm not interested in being an early adopter unless the gain will … Continue reading

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Tired of checking for null arguments in the method body

One thing I find annoying at times is adding in null checks in a method body to throw an IllegalArgumentException for method arguments that shouldn't ever be null. Most of the time as programmers we skip it and rely on … Continue reading

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