I grew up in Northern Germany and attended the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel , a harbor town at the Baltic sea. I received a M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University , and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I taught computer science at San Jose State University for…
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Java has many features that make it well suited for large, long-lasting projects. But I find it surprisingly good for small tasks as well. Recent language features make it even better. The killer features are compile-time typing and great tool support.
When Java 17 was released in 2021 as a “long term support” version, I wrote an article dissecting its features and came to the conclusion that it had a few nice features, but none that were compelling reasons to upgrade. Except one: tens of thousands of bug fixes.
I am updating volume 2 of Core Java and got stuck on the section on text files in the internationalization chapter. How hard can this be in 2016? Surely everyone uses UTF-8 these days. Or do they? Make a file Test.java