This post is part of series on little known features of java. Earlier posts covered instances accessing private members from same class, usage of class sun.misc.Unsafe and checked exception thrown through constructors for initializer blocks. In this post, I am discussing about a very common practice adopted by beginner level developers when using instanceof operator. […]
Checked exceptions thrown in initializer blocks can be declared by the constructors
This post is in continuation to exploring little known features of java. In previous post, I have covered “Instances of same class can access private members of each other” and Some very surprising usage of class sun.misc.Unsafe. In this post, I am discussing about a little known feature of initializes blocks. Initializers can be used […]
Usage of class sun.misc.Unsafe
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Instances of same class can access private members of each other
From this post onwards, I will spend few days in sharing some little known (if not unknown) features of java language, which we either don’t knew before or didn’t care to think differently. I will really appreciate if all you guys participate in discussion with your thoughts. And for being updated about next discussion point […]