java Programming Glossary: promises

Why does Java's String.getBytes() uses “ISO-8859-1”

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12659417/why-does-javas-string-getbytes-uses-iso-8859-1

question is ... Does String.getBytes deliver what it promises The contract as defined in the Javadoc is correct. The behavior..

Are Thread.stop and friends ever safe in Java?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1283328/are-thread-stop-and-friends-ever-safe-in-java

be trying to kill could be untrusted We can't rely on promises e.g. annotations on the untrusted code that it is either killable..

How to mask credit card numbers in log files with Log4J?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2461726/how-to-mask-credit-card-numbers-in-log-files-with-log4j

ESAPI security wrapper API for Log4J which at first sight promises to do what I want. However apparently I would need to replace..

Java Bytecode Manipulation Library Suggestions

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2532215/java-bytecode-manipulation-library-suggestions

such as AspectJ Groovy Cobertura and many others which promises a wide user base and thus a wide community for support. It's..

Java PDF viewer with FDF

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286867/java-pdf-viewer-with-fdf

use FDF form data. The only one i found was JPedal which promises to feature everything we need but it costs a bunch. So what..

JavaFX is now out: Are Applets and Java Desktop officially dead/dying? [closed]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/377593/javafx-is-now-out-are-applets-and-java-desktop-officially-dead-dying

dead dying closed JavaFX is now out and there are promises that Swing will improve along with JavaFX. Gone will be the..

Authenticating against Active Directory with Java on Linux

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/390150/authenticating-against-active-directory-with-java-on-linux

on Sun's track record in this area I wouldn't make any promises about their SPENGO implementation until you have that bird in..

Is asynchronous jdbc call possible?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4087696/is-asynchronous-jdbc-call-possible

calls are over or if you like CPS with pipelined futures promises a good implementation is Scalaz Promises I don't consider that..

How to implement a canonicalizing mapping in Java?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7436765/how-to-implement-a-canonicalizing-mapping-in-java

supporting weak keys or values. The upcoming CacheBuilder promises to be specially tailored to this kind of use case. So you can..

Using auto generated id of hibenate entity object in the equals and hashcode methods

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7579404/using-auto-generated-id-of-hibenate-entity-object-in-the-equals-and-hashcode-met

Does JVM/GC call `finalize()` on program/thread exit?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7880569/does-jvm-gc-call-finalize-on-program-thread-exit

The specification for the Java platform makes very few promises about how garbage collection actually works. Here is what the..

What Java XML library do you recommend (to replace dom4j)?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/831865/what-java-xml-library-do-you-recommend-to-replace-dom4j

document into a file or String. I really like what dom4j promises actually easy to use open source library for working with XML.. recently. XOM is the only XML API that makes no compromises on correctness. XOM only accepts namespace well formed XML documents..