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In one of our old JAVA projects we had an inheritance depth of five. Believe us we never liked that code. It’s bad to have a huge inheritance depth. A maintainable inheritance depth should be maximum 5. Anything above that is horrible. There is no limit as such specified anywhere that there is some limit … Read more

Javadoc parses comments in JAVA source files and produced HTML pages for the same. Below is the syntax for the same javadoc [ options ] [ packagenames ] [ sourcefiles ] [ @files ] Arguments can be in any order. Options Command-line options that is doctitle, windowtitle, header, bottom etc Packagenames: – A series of … Read more

StringBuffer is a peer class of String that provides almost all functionality of strings. String represents fixed-length, immutable character sequences. Comparatively StringBuffer represents mutable, growable and writeable character sequences. But StringBuffer does not create new instances as string so it’s more efficient when it comes to intensive concatenation operation. In Core Java, the StringBuffer class … Read more

Vector / HashTable are synchronized which means they are thread safe. Cost of thread safe is performance degradation. So if you are sure that you are not dealing with huge number of threads then you should use ArrayList / HashMap.But yes you can stillsynchronize List and Map’s using Collections provided methods :- List OurList = … Read more

There are six interfaces and come under two different inheritance group one which comes under the collection interface root and the other in the map interface root.   Collection It’s the base of all collection classes. It provides a unified way to manipulate collection objects. Collection has group of object called as elements. These elements … Read more