Concurrency (Ch 10) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 10. I have only included items that I find relevant. Synchronize access to shared mutable data (Item 66) Reading or writing a variable other than long or double is atomic, so why use synchronized? Synchronized...
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Exceptions (Ch 9) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 9. I have only included items that I find relevant. Throw exceptions appropriate to the abstraction (Item 61) Higher layers should translate lower-level exceptions to their domain. Lower level exception may not make any sense...
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General Programming (Ch 8) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 8. I have only included items that I find relevant. Avoid float and double if exact answers are required (Item 48) In binary floating point arithmetic floats and doubles cannot represent 0.1 or any...
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Methods (Ch 7) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 7. I have only included items that I find relevant. Parameter validation (Item 38) Non-public methods should check their parameters using assertions (assert) because you as author control the circumstances under which the method are...
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Enums and Annotations (Ch 6) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 6. I have only included items that I find relevant. Enum (Item 30) Use abstract methods in Enums to give each enum constant specific behaviour. Strategy enum pattern: delegate part of behaviour into...
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Generics (Ch 5) This is a short summary of Joshua Blochs book Effective Java chapter 5. I have only included items that I find relevant. Don’t use raw types (Item 23) Using unbounded wildcard type is better than using raw types e.g. Set<?>. This is because you cannot add anything...
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