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Top 10 Most Common Mistakes That Java Developers Make: A Java Beginner’s Tutorial (Publication)

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Top 10 Most Common Mistakes That Java Developers Make: A Java Beginner’s Tutorial (Publication)

Java, a sophisticated programming language, has been dominating a number of ecosystems for quite a while. Portability, automated garbage collection, and its gentle learning curve are some of the things that make it a great choice in software development. However, like any other programming language, it is still susceptible to developer mistakes. This article explores the top 10 common mistakes Java developers make and some ways of avoiding them.

Common Mistake #1: Neglecting Existing Libraries

It’s definitely a mistake for Java Developers to ignore the innumerable amount of libraries written in Java. Before reinventing the wheel, try to search for available libraries - many of them have been polished over the years of their existence and are free to use. These could be logging libraries, like logback and Log4j, or network related libraries, like Netty or Akka. Some of the libraries, such as Joda-Time, have become a de facto standard. The following is a personal experience from one of my previous projects. The part of the code responsible for HTML escaping was written from scratch. It was working well for years, but eventually it encountered a user input which caused it to spin into an infinite loop. The user, finding the service to be unresponsive, attempted to retry with the same input. Eventually, all the CPUs on the server allocated for this application were being occupied by this infinite loop. If the author of this naive HTML escape tool had decided to use one of the well known libraries available for HTML escaping, such as HtmlEscapers from Google Guava, this probably wouldn’t have happened. At the very least, true for most popular libraries with a community behind it, the error would have been found and fixed earlier by the community for this library.Click here for full article

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http://www.toptal.com/java/top-10-most-common-java-development-mistakes


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