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Generated equals in Webservice Stub

All the generated webservice-stubs from our backend have an equals-method similar to this one: Can someone please explain to me the purpoise of __equalsCalc? I just don’t get it. It is not used somewhere else in the class. The way I see it, it is not null exactly during the calculation of the “equ…

Why can’t I use switch statement on a String?

Is this functionality going to be put into a later Java version? Can someone explain why I can’t do this, as in, the technical way Java’s switch statement works? Answer Switch statements with String cases have been implemented in Java SE 7, at least 16 years after they were first requested. A clea…

Interfaces with static fields in java for sharing ‘constants’

I’m looking at some open source Java projects to get into Java and notice a lot of them have some sort of ‘constants’ interface. For instance, processing.org has an interface called PConstants.java, and most other core classes implement this interface. The interface is riddled with static me…

How do I set environment variables from Java?

How do I set environment variables from Java? I see that I can do this for subprocesses using ProcessBuilder. I have several subprocesses to start, though, so I’d rather modify the current process’s environment and let the subprocesses inherit it. There’s a System.getenv(String) for getting …