Sun engineer Xueming Shen talks about why the UTF-8 charset implementation in JDK 7 now rejects non-shortest-form UF-8 byte sequences, and why you should embrace the change. Two words:
security and
performance.[
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Sun engineer Michael McMahon describes the new close() method in URLClassLoader, It effectively invalidates the loader, so that no new classes can be loaded from it. It also closes any JAR files that were opened by the loader. [
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