Random Thoughts on Coding

It has been a while since I last posted, as I’ve been busy with some of the classes offered by Coursera. There are some very interesting offerings and is worth a look. Some time ago, I purchased Data-Intensive Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer. The book presents...

When the Guava project released version 11.0, one of the new additions was the BloomFilter class. A BloomFilter is a unique data-structure used to indicate if an element is contained in a set. What makes a BloomFilter interesting is it will indicate if an element is absolutely not contained, or...

This post is going to cover using the Guava EventBus to publish changes to a directory or sub-directories detected by the Java 7 WatchService. The Guava EventBus is a great way to add publish/subscribe communication to an application. The WatchService, new in the Java 7 java.nio.file package, is used to...

Of all the new features in Java 7, one of the more interesting is the WatchService, adding the capability to watch a directory for changes. The WatchService maps directly to the native file event notification mechanism, if available. If a native event notification mechanism is not available, then the default...

Continuing with my series on the Java 7 java.nio.file package, this time covering the DirectoryStream interface. In this post we are going implement our own DirectoryStream that will iterate over the files in an entire directory tree, not just a single directory. Our goal in the end is to have...