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[Issue 174] Java Memory Puzzle Explained In this newsletter, we reveal the answer to the puzzle from last month and explain the reasons why the first class sometimes fails and why the second always succeeds. Remember this for your next job interview ...	[Issue 173] Java Memory Puzzle In this newsletter we show you a puzzle, where a simple request causes memory to be released, that otherwise could not. Solution will be shown in the next newsletter.
[Issue 172] Wonky Dating The DateFormat produces some seemingly unpredictable results parsing the date 2009-01-28-09:11:12 as "Sun Nov 30 22:07:51 CET 2008". In this newsletter we examine why and also show how DateFormat reacts to concurrent access.	[Issue 171] Throwing ConcurrentModificationException Early One of the hardest exceptions to get rid of in a system is th ConcurrentModificationException, which typically occurs when a thread modifies a collection whilst another is busy iterating. In this newsletter we show how we can fail on the modifying, rather than the iterating thread.
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