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Monday Mar 16, 2009
Overhauling the Java UTF-8 charset
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.[Read More]
Posted at 12:24PM Mar 16, 2009 by Christine Dorffi in TechTip  |  Comments[7]

Wednesday Mar 11, 2009
Closing a URLClassLoader
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. [Read More]
Posted at 04:05PM Mar 11, 2009 by Christine Dorffi in TechTip  |  Comments[5]