Java Tutorials and Best Practices
In the previous article we talked about DOM parser and provided different examples for parsing and reading elements of an XML document. SAX parser is yet another XML parser provided by JDK which parses documents in a more optimized and faster way. SAX parser doesn’t load the whole document into the memory, however it parses the document line by line...
In this tutorial, we show how to create a new XML file using DOM parser provided by JDK. We’re going to create an XML called students.xml which lists students along with their basic information. 1- Create XML using Transformer The following code snippet appends 3 student elements to a root element called students and then transforms the document object to...
In this tutorial, we show how to read and parse an XML file using DOM parser provided by JDK. 1- Students.xml Consider we have the following Students.xml file:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | <students> <student graduated="yes"> <id>1</id> <name>Hussein</name> </student> <student> <id>2</id> <name>Alex</name> </student> </students> |
2- Instantiate XML file DOM parser loads the whole XML document into the memory and considers every XML tag as an element. In order to instantiate a new Document object from an...
ClassNotFoundException and NoClassDefFoundError occur when a required class is not found in the classpath at runtime. In this tutorial, we resolve the conflict between these 2 exceptions and explain the different scenarios of reproducing each one of them. 1- ClassNotFoundException As per java doc, this exception is thrown when trying to instantiate a class using one of these methods: forName(), findSystemClass(),...
This tutorial shows several ways for iterating a Map in Java. 1- Entry Set The common way for iterating a Map in Java is through entrySet() method as the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | private static void iterateMapUsingEntrySet(Map<String, Double> studentGrades) { for(Entry<String, Double> entry : studentGrades.entrySet()) { System.out.println("Key = " + entry.getKey()); System.out.println("Value = " + entry.getValue()); } } |
2- Iterator You can also use entrySet() along with iterator() methods to iterate a Map through an Iterator:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | private static void iterateMapUsingIterator(Map<String, Double> studentGrades) { Iterator entries = studentGrades.entrySet().iterator(); for(Entry entry = (Entry) entries.next(); entries.hasNext();) { System.out.println("Key = " + entry.getKey()); System.out.println("Value = " + entry.getValue()); } } |
3- keySet() Using keySet() method, you can retrieve all the...
This tutorial shows several ways for iterating a List in Java. 1- Typical For loop Using a typical For loop, you can iterate a List as the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | private static void iterateListForLoop(List<String> lstInput) { for(int i=0; i<lstInput.size(); i++) { System.out.println(lstInput.get(i)); } } |
2- Enhanced For loop Since JDK 5.0, you can iterate a List using an enhanced For loop which works as the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | private static void iterateListForEach(List<String> lstInput) { for(String input : lstInput) { System.out.println(input); } } |
3- Typical While loop Using a typical while...
ArrayList and Vector collections are used interchangeably for storing several items with the same type inside the memory. In this tutorial, we list the major similarities and differences between these 2 collections. 1- Similarities Both collections implement List interface, hence they expose similar operations for add, edit and delete operations. Both store their items in a dynamic Array inside the memory. Both...
Hashing objects like HashMap and Hashtable are mostly used for storing and caching data as a key/value pairs inside the memory. In this tutorial, we list the major similarities and differences between these 2 data types. 1- Similarities Both expose the same interface for adding, removing and accessing elements from the memory. get(): retrieve an item by a key. remove():...
This tutorial shows several ways to convert a File object to a byte[] array in Java. 1- Traditional way The traditional conversion way is through using read() method of InputStream as the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | public static byte[] convertUsingTraditionalWay(File file) { byte[] fileBytes = new byte[(int) file.length()]; try(FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file)) { inputStream.read(fileBytes); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } return fileBytes; } |
2- Java NIO With Java 7, you can do the conversion using Files utility class of nio package:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | public static byte[] convertUsingJavaNIO(File file) { byte[] fileBytes = null; try { fileBytes = Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } return fileBytes; } |
3- Apache Commons IO Besides JDK, you can...
This tutorial shows several ways to convert a byte[] array to File in Java. 1- Traditional way The traditional way of doing the conversion is through using FileOutputStream as the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | public static File convertUsingOutputStream(byte[] fileBytes) { File f = new File("C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\output\\myfile.pdf"); try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(f)) { fos.write(fileBytes); } catch(Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } return f; } |
2- Java NIO With Java 7, you can do the conversion using Files utility class of nio package:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | public static File convertUsingJavaNIO(byte[] fileBytes) { File f = new File("C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\output\\myfile.pdf"); try { Files.write(f.toPath(), fileBytes); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } return f; } |
3- Apache Commons IO Besides JDK, you can do...