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Comment on Event Programming with Google Guava EventBus by Bill B

Bill B — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:49:36 +0000

Albert,

Thanks for the comments. I’m glad to hear that the EventBus is working for you. I do plan on getting back to some more Guava posts at some point.

Cheers,
Bill

Comment on Event Programming with Google Guava EventBus by Albert Kam

Albert Kam — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:59:38 +0000

I am currently using eventBus heavily in my app, sync and async.
And i blame you for this.
Hopefully you can find more time to share other guava stuffs.
Thanks a lot !

Comment on Android Drag and Drop (Part 1) by Bill B

Bill B — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:23:40 +0000

Lars,

Thanks for the comments. What you saw on javacodegeeks is actually the same content from my blog, they took all 3 parts of my Android Drag Drop tutorial and combined it into one. I have an reprint agreement with them, any blog of mine they reprint has a link back to the original here.

Cheers,
Bill

Comment on Android Drag and Drop (Part 1) by Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:22:01 +0000

Thanks for the nice introduction into drag and drop I noticed similar content http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/12/android-drag-and-drop-tutorial.html?m=1 which links back to you, therefore it might be ok

Comment on What’s new in Java 7 – The (Quiet) NIO File Revolution by Blog: What's new in Java 7 - The (Quiet) NIO... | Oracle | Syngu

Blog: What's new in Java 7 - The (Quiet) NIO... | Oracle | Syngu — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:41:11 +0000

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Comment on Creating An Asynchronous, Recursive DirectoryStream in Java 7 by Bill B

Bill B — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:30:56 +0000

John,
Thanks for the comments. Guava has a ForwardingIterator that forwards all calls to a delegate iterator. While it does not execute the supplied iterator in it’s own thread, that could be added to accomplish what you are suggesting.

Cheers,
Bill

Comment on Creating An Asynchronous, Recursive DirectoryStream in Java 7 by John J

John J — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:28:41 +0000

Nice example. I liked the extra effort of putting the iteration into its own thread. Makes me think that a general utility that takes an Iterable and returns a new one that executes the supplied Iterable in its own thread would be nice. Does anything like that already existing in Java 7, or maybe Guava or proposed for Java 8?

Comment on Creating An Asynchronous, Recursive DirectoryStream in Java 7 by Bill B

Bill B — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:21:30 +0000

Emanuele,
Great question, check out FileDirectoryStream and the unit test FileDirectoryStreamTest. The code ends up being pretty much the same except that you need to check in the FilenameFilter for a directory, and some minor differences with building the FutureTask. Overall though, I prefer using the Java 7 approach. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Cheers,
Bill

Comment on Creating An Asynchronous, Recursive DirectoryStream in Java 7 by Emanuele

Emanuele — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:17:59 +0000

Lovely indeed. Just as a comparison, how would you do the same in Java 6?

Comment on What’s new in Java 7 – The (Quiet) NIO File Revolution by Bill B

Bill B — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:42:55 +0000

Jakob,
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
While I would agree that Java has been too slow to evolve, I think saying Java is stuck in the dark ages is a little strong.

Cheers,
Bill