Overloading is a very powerful technique for scenarios where you need the same method name with different parameters. It’s a useful technique because having the right name in your code makes a ...

As with my earlier posts on the subject of too many method parameters, I will end this post with a brief discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

In Listing C, we can see our Scheduler/Task setup modified to take advantage of the Java 1.4’s exception chaining. When the TaskException has percolated its way to the top, the IOException that ...