Google Collections – An Overview with sample tutorials

One of the most commonly or widely used data structures within the Java language are the Collections. However time and again developers have felt the need for more flexibility
leading to the Apache Commons Collection library and now the Google Collections library.
There is already an article devoted to comparing the two libraries and I do not intend to take sides here. In this post I just intend to prepare certain easy-to-use reference examples for using the Google Collections library.

Java Custom Annotations

My earlier post covered in-built annotations supported by Java 5. Today we will look at developing custom java annotations on our own.

Java Annotations – An Introduction

Annotations is a new feature introduced in Java 5 (Tiger release). This post intends to provide a high level introduction to the concept of annotations.