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[Issue 211] Unicode Redux (2 of 2) We continue our discussion on Unicode by looking at how we can compare text that uses diacritical marks or special characters such as the German Umlaut.	[Issue 210] Calling Methods from a Constructor In this newsletter we investigate what can go wrong when we call methods from constructors, showing examples from the JDK, Glassfish, Spring Framework and some other well known frameworks..
[Issue 209] Unicode Redux (1 of 2) Unicode is the most important computing industry standard for representation and handling of text, no matter which of the world's writing systems is used. This newsletter discusses some selected features of Unicode, and how they might be dealt with in Java.	[Issue 208] Throwing Exceptions from Fields How can you set a field at point of declaration if its constructor throws a checked exception?
[Issue 207] Final Parameters and Local Variables The trend of marking parameters and local variables as "final" does not really enhance your code, nor does it make it more secure.	[Issue 206] Striped Executor Service We present a new type of ExecutorService that allows users to "stripe" their execution in such a way that all tasks belonging to one stripe are executed in-order.
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