Java object serialization is a feature of the JDK that is far too often overlooked. When a developer puts together a prototype or cooks up a proof of concept, simply saving a serialized Java object to ...

Often, a J2EE Web application framework—Struts, for example—doesn't address the Web-tier object references between Action/servlet and other layers, such as a plain old Java object (POJO ...

In this case, testing some object that depends on a DAO object becomes a bit easier if you can mock out the DAO and thus not have to worry about an associated database, etc.

The Java Function interface is quite simple. It takes a single Java object as an argument, and returns a single Java object when the method concludes. Any method you can conjure up takes an object and ...