java Programming Glossary: rationale

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1052577/why-must-junits-fixturesetup-be-static

got this exception saying it must be static. What's the rationale This forces all my init to be on static fields for no good reason..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1208077/optimal-number-of-connections-in-connection-pool

number of the exec threads configured in WebLogic . The rationale is very simple If the number of the connections is less than..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12503437/google-drive-service-account-returns-403-usagelimits

http header. Trace the http and look at the headers. The rationale for the quota message is that without an Auth header you are..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2439782/overload-with-different-return-type-in-java

You can't do it in Java and you can't do it in C . The rationale is that the return value alone is not sufficient for the compiler..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318239/how-do-i-set-environment-variables-from-java

the currently running process If so how If not what's the rationale Is it because this is Java and therefore I shouldn't be doing..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3567413/why-doesnt-a-missing-annotation-cause-a-classnotfoundexception-at-runtime

the JLS somewhere or is it a quirk of Sun's JVM What's the rationale for it It seems convenient for things like javax.annotation.Nonnull..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/541912/interface-naming-in-java

with a capital I why does Java not do this What was the rationale for not following this convention To demonstrate what I mean..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6173495/why-does-javas-collectione-toarray-return-an-object-rather-than-an-e

an empty collection . As I understand it this was the main rationale behind the idiom collection.toArray new E 0 . With generics..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6871213/is-there-a-cookbook-guide-for-gc-problems

guide or semi automated tool to tune GC for Java My rationale is this Almost anyone eventually has these problems There are..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/727844/javax-vs-java-package

vs java package What's the rationale behind the javax package What goes into java and what into javax..

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

Check out web page http www.xom.nu for FAQ Cookbook design rationale etc. If only everything was designed with so much love Author..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/850878/does-setting-java-objects-to-null-do-anything-anymore

obj obj null explicitly set to null doSomethingElse The rationale here was that because obj is still in scope then without the..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94977/why-arent-variables-declared-in-try-in-scope-in-catch-or-finally

the try catch finally . My question is what were are the rationale s behind this language design decision in Java in C# and or..