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More on Autoboxing

I recently did a benchmark on Autoboxing where I determined that Autoboxing cost about 15 nanoseconds. Well, then I got to thinking that I’d written that test to work with int/Integer datatypes. But what about the other types? Today I add Boolean, Float, Double and Long into the mix. To cut to the chase, I’ll [...]

The Wicket Component Model Explained

Wicket is a Java/HTML approach to building the guts of a J2EE web application, and I must admit that when I first heard of it I was both eagerly excited (to try it) and more than mildly pessimistic (that an application written in Wicket would be maintainable beyond a certain trivial size ). The past [...]