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Building Javadocs from the Command Line

Some IDEs provide support for generating HTML from Javadocs automatically, but this can also be achieved using the command line: javadoc tool The most basic usage of the tool is

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Using Optional in Java

With Java version 8, there is an option to assign null value to an object of type Optional. For example: Optional optionalVar = Optional.ofNullable(null); //Optional.ofNullable() accepts a null value to

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Using NaN in Java

Java has a value NaN. The value has multiple faces and is returned under different circumstances. Below code samples will help us understand some of them. public class JavaNaN{public static

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Running an Executable JAR File

Executable JAR files are the easiest way to assemble Java code into a single file which can be executed. Assuming that you have an executable JAR file with pathname ,

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Find an IP Address by Name

Find the IP address of a server that you know, for example: google.com. Java, as usual, provides a very easy mechanism to retrieve the IP address of a server that

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Dereferencing in Java

Dereferencing happens using the . operator: Object object = new Object();String text = object.toString(); // ‘object’ is dereferenced. Dereferencing pursues the memory address placed in a reference, to the place