The JSObject interface in Nashorn makes it possible to expose an object to script code and control in detail how it appears and behaves. The purpose of this article is to explain when the different JSObject methods are called during script execution and in some cases how they should be implemented.

I stumbled upon an interesting little detail as I was using a regular expression in a unit test case in a C# application. I had a multiline string and was searching for a particular substring in multiline mode. The newlines in the string were Windows newlines, meaning CR followed by …

The background for this post was that I needed to implement strongly typed properties in a C# project. With strongly typed property, I specifically mean a strongly typed version of public object GetProperty(string propertyName), where the property name is a constant (or name) of some sort, and the return …

I found Project Lombok via a Tweet, and was intrigued when I saw that a single annotation could trigger automatic code generation transparently during compilation of a source file. How do they do that?

Some digging lead me to discover Java’s annotation processing API, and how one can use …

A while ago I set out to fix a couple of focus problems in a GUI at work. One of the problems was that after a certain user operation, all keyboard shortcuts stopped working (as you may know, keyboard events are dispatched up the focus chain until a component handles …