Google App Engine standard now supports Java 8

I found the following link which peaked my interest.

Google App Engine standard now supports Java 8

Also, if you wish to see if Google App Engine is appropriate for you, check out the following link
Choosing the right compute option in GCP: a decision tree .

Do interfaces inherit from Object class in java?

I was thinking this question suddenly at work...

Quick, Batman! To the StackOverflow¹!!!

The answer comes straight from the JSL².

References

[1] StackOverflow - Do interfaces inherit from Object class in java

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6056124/do-interfaces-inherit-from-object-class-in-java

[2] JLS Java 8 - 9.2. Interface Members

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-9.html#jls-9.2

mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

When attempting to mount a USB drive, I encountered the following error regarding the filesystem exFAT¹:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

I had to install fuse-exfat as detailed according to [2].

# yum install fuse-exfat
Redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf install fuse-exfat' (see 'man yum2dnf')

Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Fri May 12 07:06:52 2017.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
Package        Arch       Version             Repository                  Size
================================================================================
Installing:
fuse-exfat     x86_64     1.2.5-1.fc25        rpmfusion-free-updates      40 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 40 k
Installed size: 71 k
Is this ok [y/N]: Y
Downloading Packages:
fuse-exfat-1.2.5-1.fc25.x86_64.rpm              335 kB/s |  40 kB     00:00    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           118 kB/s |  40 kB     00:00     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Installing  : fuse-exfat-1.2.5-1.fc25.x86_64                              1/1

Mounting after that worked flawlessly.

# mount /dev/sdb1 mydrive
FUSE exfat 1.2.5

References

[1] Wikipedia - exFAT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

[2] Mounting EXFAT formatted pendrives in fedora linux

https://coderwall.com/p/nvwgea/mounting-exfat-formatted-pendrives-in-fedora-linux

Enumerations in EclipseLink

I have a field in the database that does not match with an Enumeration.

So I needed to do a little conversion in EclipseLink, and I didn't know how.

Below is the answer on that one.

References

EclipseLink - @ObjectTypeConverter

https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/UserGuide/JPA/Basic_JPA_Development/Mapping/Basic_Mappings/Default_Conversions_and_Converters/ObjectTypeConverter

EclipseLink - EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/EnumToCode

https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/EnumToCode

Lambdas, New IO, and parsing textfiles in a hurry.

Okay, so I needed to do some parsing of a file containing URLs (which I "wget"-ted) and moving the retrieved files to proper locations.

I decided to write a quick Java program to do this instead of messing around with scripting languages or a Linux bash shell.

It worked very well, and I am rather pleased with the result and Java 8.

It contains the following "new/newer/not-very-old" stuff:

• a lambda
• a stream (of Strings)
• a method reference (used as a lambda)
• the java.nio.file package (New IO)

One small note: lambdas implement an interface. In this case the forEach requires a lambda that implements the Consumer interface. The Consumer interface does not specify an IOException. Therefore, I am required to catch it here and rethrow it unchecked.

References

[1] Java SE 8 - Official Javadoc

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/