Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'

.gitignore

@@ -43,3 +43,4 @@ spring-call-getters-using-reflection/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
 spring-check-if-a-property-is-null/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
 *.springBeans
 
+20171220-JMeter.csv

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/maze/solver/BFSMazeSolver.java

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.maze.solver;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class BFSMazeSolver {
+    private static final int[][] DIRECTIONS = { { 0, 1 }, { 1, 0 }, { 0, -1 }, { -1, 0 } };
+
+    public List<Coordinate> solve(Maze maze) {
+        LinkedList<Coordinate> nextToVisit = new LinkedList<>();
+        Coordinate start = maze.getEntry();
+        nextToVisit.add(start);
+
+        while (!nextToVisit.isEmpty()) {
+            Coordinate cur = nextToVisit.remove();
+
+            if (!maze.isValidLocation(cur.getX(), cur.getY()) || maze.isExplored(cur.getX(), cur.getY())) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (maze.isWall(cur.getX(), cur.getY())) {
+                maze.setVisited(cur.getX(), cur.getY(), true);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (maze.isExit(cur.getX(), cur.getY())) {
+                return backtrackPath(cur);
+            }
+
+            for (int[] direction : DIRECTIONS) {
+                Coordinate coordinate = new Coordinate(cur.getX() + direction[0], cur.getY() + direction[1], cur);
+                nextToVisit.add(coordinate);
+                maze.setVisited(cur.getX(), cur.getY(), true);
+            }
+        }
+        return Collections.emptyList();
+    }
+
+    private List<Coordinate> backtrackPath(Coordinate cur) {
+        List<Coordinate> path = new ArrayList<>();
+        Coordinate iter = cur;
+
+        while (iter != null) {
+            path.add(iter);
+            iter = iter.parent;
+        }
+
+        return path;
+    }
+}

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/maze/solver/Coordinate.java

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.maze.solver;
+
+public class Coordinate {
+    int x;
+    int y;
+    Coordinate parent;
+
+    public Coordinate(int x, int y) {
+        this.x = x;
+        this.y = y;
+        this.parent = null;
+    }
+
+    public Coordinate(int x, int y, Coordinate parent) {
+        this.x = x;
+        this.y = y;
+        this.parent = parent;
+    }
+
+    int getX() {
+        return x;
+    }
+
+    int getY() {
+        return y;
+    }
+
+    Coordinate getParent() {
+        return parent;
+    }
+}

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/maze/solver/DFSMazeSolver.java

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.maze.solver;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class DFSMazeSolver {
+    private static final int[][] DIRECTIONS = { { 0, 1 }, { 1, 0 }, { 0, -1 }, { -1, 0 } };
+
+    public List<Coordinate> solve(Maze maze) {
+        List<Coordinate> path = new ArrayList<>();
+        if (explore(maze, maze.getEntry()
+            .getX(),
+            maze.getEntry()
+                .getY(),
+            path)) {
+            return path;
+        }
+        return Collections.emptyList();
+    }
+
+    private boolean explore(Maze maze, int row, int col, List<Coordinate> path) {
+        if (!maze.isValidLocation(row, col) || maze.isWall(row, col) || maze.isExplored(row, col)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        path.add(new Coordinate(row, col));
+        maze.setVisited(row, col, true);
+
+        if (maze.isExit(row, col)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        for (int[] direction : DIRECTIONS) {
+            Coordinate coordinate = getNextCoordinate(row, col, direction[0], direction[1]);
+            if (explore(maze, coordinate.getX(), coordinate.getY(), path)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        path.remove(path.size() - 1);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private Coordinate getNextCoordinate(int row, int col, int i, int j) {
+        return new Coordinate(row + i, col + j);
+    }
+}

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/maze/solver/Maze.java

@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.maze.solver;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Scanner;
+
+public class Maze {
+    private static final int ROAD = 0;
+    private static final int WALL = 1;
+    private static final int START = 2;
+    private static final int EXIT = 3;
+    private static final int PATH = 4;
+
+    private int[][] maze;
+    private boolean[][] visited;
+    private Coordinate start;
+    private Coordinate end;
+
+    public Maze(File maze) throws FileNotFoundException {
+        String fileText = "";
+        try (Scanner input = new Scanner(maze)) {
+            while (input.hasNextLine()) {
+                fileText += input.nextLine() + "\n";
+            }
+        }
+        initializeMaze(fileText);
+    }
+
+    private void initializeMaze(String text) {
+        if (text == null || (text = text.trim()).length() == 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("empty lines data");
+        }
+
+        String[] lines = text.split("[\r]?\n");
+        maze = new int[lines.length][lines[0].length()];
+        visited = new boolean[lines.length][lines[0].length()];
+
+        for (int row = 0; row < getHeight(); row++) {
+            if (lines[row].length() != getWidth()) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("line " + (row + 1) + " wrong length (was " + lines[row].length() + " but should be " + getWidth() + ")");
+            }
+
+            for (int col = 0; col < getWidth(); col++) {
+                if (lines[row].charAt(col) == '#')
+                    maze[row][col] = WALL;
+                else if (lines[row].charAt(col) == 'S') {
+                    maze[row][col] = START;
+                    start = new Coordinate(row, col);
+                } else if (lines[row].charAt(col) == 'E') {
+                    maze[row][col] = EXIT;
+                    end = new Coordinate(row, col);
+                } else
+                    maze[row][col] = ROAD;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public int getHeight() {
+        return maze.length;
+    }
+
+    public int getWidth() {
+        return maze[0].length;
+    }
+
+    public Coordinate getEntry() {
+        return start;
+    }
+
+    public Coordinate getExit() {
+        return end;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isExit(int x, int y) {
+        return x == end.getX() && y == end.getY();
+    }
+
+    public boolean isStart(int x, int y) {
+        return x == start.getX() && y == start.getY();
+    }
+
+    public boolean isExplored(int row, int col) {
+        return visited[row][col];
+    }
+
+    public boolean isWall(int row, int col) {
+        return maze[row][col] == WALL;
+    }
+
+    public void setVisited(int row, int col, boolean value) {
+        visited[row][col] = value;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isValidLocation(int row, int col) {
+        if (row < 0 || row >= getHeight() || col < 0 || col >= getWidth()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public void printPath(List<Coordinate> path) {
+        int[][] tempMaze = Arrays.stream(maze)
+            .map(int[]::clone)
+            .toArray(int[][]::new);
+        for (Coordinate coordinate : path) {
+            if (isStart(coordinate.getX(), coordinate.getY()) || isExit(coordinate.getX(), coordinate.getY())) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            tempMaze[coordinate.getX()][coordinate.getY()] = PATH;
+        }
+        System.out.println(toString(tempMaze));
+    }
+
+    public String toString(int[][] maze) {
+        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(getWidth() * (getHeight() + 1));
+        for (int row = 0; row < getHeight(); row++) {
+            for (int col = 0; col < getWidth(); col++) {
+                if (maze[row][col] == ROAD) {
+                    result.append(' ');
+                } else if (maze[row][col] == WALL) {
+                    result.append('#');
+                } else if (maze[row][col] == START) {
+                    result.append('S');
+                } else if (maze[row][col] == EXIT) {
+                    result.append('E');
+                } else {
+                    result.append('.');
+                }
+            }
+            result.append('\n');
+        }
+        return result.toString();
+    }
+
+    public void reset() {
+        for (int i = 0; i < visited.length; i++)
+            Arrays.fill(visited[i], false);
+    }
+}

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/maze/solver/MazeDriver.java

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package com.baeldung.algorithms.maze.solver;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class MazeDriver {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        File maze1 = new File("src/main/resources/maze/maze1.txt");
+        File maze2 = new File("src/main/resources/maze/maze2.txt");
+
+        execute(maze1);
+        execute(maze2);
+    }
+
+    private static void execute(File file) throws Exception {
+        Maze maze = new Maze(file);
+        dfs(maze);
+        bfs(maze);
+    }
+
+    private static void bfs(Maze maze) {
+        BFSMazeSolver bfs = new BFSMazeSolver();
+        List<Coordinate> path = bfs.solve(maze);
+        maze.printPath(path);
+        maze.reset();
+    }
+
+    private static void dfs(Maze maze) {
+        DFSMazeSolver dfs = new DFSMazeSolver();
+        List<Coordinate> path = dfs.solve(maze);
+        maze.printPath(path);
+        maze.reset();
+    }
+}

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/sudoku/BacktrackingAlgorithm.java

@@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ public class BacktrackingAlgorithm {
     }
 
     private boolean solve(int[][] board) {
-        for (int r = BOARD_START_INDEX; r < BOARD_SIZE; r++) {
-            for (int c = BOARD_START_INDEX; c < BOARD_SIZE; c++) {
-                if (board[r][c] == NO_VALUE) {
+        for (int row = BOARD_START_INDEX; row < BOARD_SIZE; row++) {
+            for (int column = BOARD_START_INDEX; column < BOARD_SIZE; column++) {
+                if (board[row][column] == NO_VALUE) {
                     for (int k = MIN_VALUE; k <= MAX_VALUE; k++) {
-                        board[r][c] = k;
-                        if (isValid(board, r, c) && solve(board)) {
+                        board[row][column] = k;
+                        if (isValid(board, row, column) && solve(board)) {
                             return true;
                         }
-                        board[r][c] = NO_VALUE;
+                        board[row][column] = NO_VALUE;
                     }
                     return false;
                 }
@@ -57,44 +57,44 @@ public class BacktrackingAlgorithm {
         return true;
     }
 
-    private boolean isValid(int[][] board, int r, int c) {
-        return rowConstraint(board, r) &&
-          columnConstraint(board, c) &&
-          subsectionConstraint(board, r, c);
+    private boolean isValid(int[][] board, int row, int column) {
+        return rowConstraint(board, row) &&
+          columnConstraint(board, column) &&
+          subsectionConstraint(board, row, column);
     }
 
-    private boolean subsectionConstraint(int[][] board, int r, int c) {
+    private boolean subsectionConstraint(int[][] board, int row, int column) {
         boolean[] constraint = new boolean[BOARD_SIZE];
-        int subsectionRowStart = (r / SUBSECTION_SIZE) * SUBSECTION_SIZE;
+        int subsectionRowStart = (row / SUBSECTION_SIZE) * SUBSECTION_SIZE;
         int subsectionRowEnd = subsectionRowStart + SUBSECTION_SIZE;
 
-        int subsectionColumnStart = (c / SUBSECTION_SIZE) * SUBSECTION_SIZE;
+        int subsectionColumnStart = (column / SUBSECTION_SIZE) * SUBSECTION_SIZE;
         int subsectionColumnEnd = subsectionColumnStart + SUBSECTION_SIZE;
 
-        for (int i = subsectionRowStart; i < subsectionRowEnd; i++) {
-            for (int j = subsectionColumnStart; j < subsectionColumnEnd; j++) {
-                if (!checkConstraint(board, i, constraint, j)) return false;
+        for (int r = subsectionRowStart; r < subsectionRowEnd; r++) {
+            for (int c = subsectionColumnStart; c < subsectionColumnEnd; c++) {
+                if (!checkConstraint(board, r, constraint, c)) return false;
             }
         }
         return true;
     }
 
-    private boolean columnConstraint(int[][] board, int c) {
+    private boolean columnConstraint(int[][] board, int column) {
         boolean[] constraint = new boolean[BOARD_SIZE];
         return IntStream.range(BOARD_START_INDEX, BOARD_SIZE)
-          .allMatch(i -> checkConstraint(board, i, constraint, c));
+          .allMatch(row -> checkConstraint(board, row, constraint, column));
     }
 
-    private boolean rowConstraint(int[][] board, int r) {
+    private boolean rowConstraint(int[][] board, int row) {
         boolean[] constraint = new boolean[BOARD_SIZE];
         return IntStream.range(BOARD_START_INDEX, BOARD_SIZE)
-          .allMatch(i -> checkConstraint(board, r, constraint, i));
+          .allMatch(column -> checkConstraint(board, row, constraint, column));
     }
 
-    private boolean checkConstraint(int[][] board, int r, boolean[] constraint, int c) {
-        if (board[r][c] != NO_VALUE) {
-            if (!constraint[board[r][c] - 1]) {
-                constraint[board[r][c] - 1] = true;
+    private boolean checkConstraint(int[][] board, int row, boolean[] constraint, int column) {
+        if (board[row][column] != NO_VALUE) {
+            if (!constraint[board[row][column] - 1]) {
+                constraint[board[row][column] - 1] = true;
             } else {
                 return false;
             }

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/sudoku/DancingLinks.java

@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ public class DancingLinks {
     }
 
     private static void printSolution(int[][] result) {
-        int N = result.length;
+        int size = result.length;
         for (int[] aResult : result) {
             StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();
-            for (int j = 0; j < N; j++) {
+            for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {
                 ret.append(aResult[j]).append(" ");
             }
             System.out.println(ret);

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/sudoku/DancingLinksAlgorithm.java

@@ -34,75 +34,88 @@ public class DancingLinksAlgorithm {
         dlx.runSolver();
     }
 
-    private int getIndex(int row, int col, int num) {
-        return (row - 1) * BOARD_SIZE * BOARD_SIZE + (col - 1) * BOARD_SIZE + (num - 1);
+    private int getIndex(int row, int column, int num) {
+        return (row - 1) * BOARD_SIZE * BOARD_SIZE + (column - 1) * BOARD_SIZE + (num - 1);
     }
 
     private boolean[][] createExactCoverBoard() {
-        boolean[][] R = new boolean[BOARD_SIZE * BOARD_SIZE * MAX_VALUE][BOARD_SIZE * BOARD_SIZE * CONSTRAINTS];
+        boolean[][] coverBoard = new boolean[BOARD_SIZE * BOARD_SIZE * MAX_VALUE][BOARD_SIZE * BOARD_SIZE * CONSTRAINTS];
 
         int hBase = 0;
+        hBase = checkCellConstraint(coverBoard, hBase);
+        hBase = checkRowConstraint(coverBoard, hBase);
+        hBase = checkColumnConstraint(coverBoard, hBase);
+        checkSubsectionConstraint(coverBoard, hBase);
         
-        // Cell constraint.
-        for (int r = COVER_START_INDEX; r <= BOARD_SIZE; r++) {
-            for (int c = COVER_START_INDEX; c <= BOARD_SIZE; c++, hBase++) {
-                for (int n = COVER_START_INDEX; n <= BOARD_SIZE; n++) {
-                    int index = getIndex(r, c, n);
-                    R[index][hBase] = true;
-                }
-            }
-        }
+        return coverBoard;
+    }
 
-        // Row constrain.
-        for (int r = COVER_START_INDEX; r <= BOARD_SIZE; r++) {
-            for (int n = COVER_START_INDEX; n <= BOARD_SIZE; n++, hBase++) {
-                for (int c1 = COVER_START_INDEX; c1 <= BOARD_SIZE; c1++) {
-                    int index = getIndex(r, c1, n);
-                    R[index][hBase] = true;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Column constraint.
-        for (int c = COVER_START_INDEX; c <= BOARD_SIZE; c++) {
-            for (int n = COVER_START_INDEX; n <= BOARD_SIZE; n++, hBase++) {
-                for (int r1 = COVER_START_INDEX; r1 <= BOARD_SIZE; r1++) {
-                    int index = getIndex(r1, c, n);
-                    R[index][hBase] = true;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Subsection constraint
-        for (int br = COVER_START_INDEX; br <= BOARD_SIZE; br += SUBSECTION_SIZE) {
-            for (int bc = COVER_START_INDEX; bc <= BOARD_SIZE; bc += SUBSECTION_SIZE) {
+    private int checkSubsectionConstraint(boolean[][] coverBoard, int hBase) {
+        for (int row = COVER_START_INDEX; row <= BOARD_SIZE; row += SUBSECTION_SIZE) {
+            for (int column = COVER_START_INDEX; column <= BOARD_SIZE; column += SUBSECTION_SIZE) {
                 for (int n = COVER_START_INDEX; n <= BOARD_SIZE; n++, hBase++) {
-                    for (int rDelta = 0; rDelta < SUBSECTION_SIZE; rDelta++) {
-                        for (int cDelta = 0; cDelta < SUBSECTION_SIZE; cDelta++) {
-                            int index = getIndex(br + rDelta, bc + cDelta, n);
-                            R[index][hBase] = true;
+                    for (int rowDelta = 0; rowDelta < SUBSECTION_SIZE; rowDelta++) {
+                        for (int columnDelta = 0; columnDelta < SUBSECTION_SIZE; columnDelta++) {
+                            int index = getIndex(row + rowDelta, column + columnDelta, n);
+                            coverBoard[index][hBase] = true;
                         }
                     }
                 }
             }
         }
-        return R;
+        return hBase;
+    }
+
+    private int checkColumnConstraint(boolean[][] coverBoard, int hBase) {
+        for (int column = COVER_START_INDEX; column <= BOARD_SIZE; column++) {
+            for (int n = COVER_START_INDEX; n <= BOARD_SIZE; n++, hBase++) {
+                for (int row = COVER_START_INDEX; row <= BOARD_SIZE; row++) {
+                    int index = getIndex(row, column, n);
+                    coverBoard[index][hBase] = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return hBase;
+    }
+
+    private int checkRowConstraint(boolean[][] coverBoard, int hBase) {
+        for (int row = COVER_START_INDEX; row <= BOARD_SIZE; row++) {
+            for (int n = COVER_START_INDEX; n <= BOARD_SIZE; n++, hBase++) {
+                for (int column = COVER_START_INDEX; column <= BOARD_SIZE; column++) {
+                    int index = getIndex(row, column, n);
+                    coverBoard[index][hBase] = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return hBase;
+    }
+
+    private int checkCellConstraint(boolean[][] coverBoard, int hBase) {
+        for (int row = COVER_START_INDEX; row <= BOARD_SIZE; row++) {
+            for (int column = COVER_START_INDEX; column <= BOARD_SIZE; column++, hBase++) {
+                for (int n = COVER_START_INDEX; n <= BOARD_SIZE; n++) {
+                    int index = getIndex(row, column, n);
+                    coverBoard[index][hBase] = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return hBase;
     }
 
     private boolean[][] initializeExactCoverBoard(int[][] board) {
-        boolean[][] R = createExactCoverBoard();
-        for (int i = COVER_START_INDEX; i <= BOARD_SIZE; i++) {
-            for (int j = COVER_START_INDEX; j <= BOARD_SIZE; j++) {
-                int n = board[i - 1][j - 1];
+        boolean[][] coverBoard = createExactCoverBoard();
+        for (int row = COVER_START_INDEX; row <= BOARD_SIZE; row++) {
+            for (int column = COVER_START_INDEX; column <= BOARD_SIZE; column++) {
+                int n = board[row - 1][column - 1];
                 if (n != NO_VALUE) {
                     for (int num = MIN_VALUE; num <= MAX_VALUE; num++) {
                         if (num != n) {
-                            Arrays.fill(R[getIndex(i, j, num)], false);
+                            Arrays.fill(coverBoard[getIndex(row, column, num)], false);
                         }
                     }
                 }
             }
         }
-        return R;
+        return coverBoard;
     }
 }

algorithms/src/main/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/sudoku/DancingNode.java

@@ -4,21 +4,21 @@ class DancingNode {
     DancingNode L, R, U, D;
     ColumnNode C;
 
-    DancingNode hookDown(DancingNode n1) {
-        assert (this.C == n1.C);
-        n1.D = this.D;
-        n1.D.U = n1;
-        n1.U = this;
-        this.D = n1;
-        return n1;
+    DancingNode hookDown(DancingNode node) {
+        assert (this.C == node.C);
+        node.D = this.D;
+        node.D.U = node;
+        node.U = this;
+        this.D = node;
+        return node;
     }
 
-    DancingNode hookRight(DancingNode n1) {
-        n1.R = this.R;
-        n1.R.L = n1;
-        n1.L = this;
-        this.R = n1;
-        return n1;
+    DancingNode hookRight(DancingNode node) {
+        node.R = this.R;
+        node.R.L = node;
+        node.L = this;
+        this.R = node;
+        return node;
     }
 
     void unlinkLR() {

algorithms/src/main/resources/maze/maze1.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+S ########
+#        #
+# ### ## #
+# #    # #
+# #  # # #
+# ## #####
+# #      #
+# # #  # #
+##### ####
+#   #    E
+# #    # #
+##########

algorithms/src/main/resources/maze/maze2.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+S ##########################
+# #      #                 #
+# # ####   ############### #
+# # #    # #               #
+# # #### # # ###############
+# # #    # # #             #
+# # # #### ### ########### #
+# # # #        #           #
+#       ################## #
+#########    # # #       # #
+# #       #### # ####### # #
+# # ### ###  # # #       # #
+#   #       ##   # ##### # #
+##### #######  # #     # # #
+#     #       ## ## #### # #
+# ##### #######     #      #
+#       #       ############
+####### #########        # #
+#       #         ######## #
+# ####### ###### ##   #    E
+#         #         #   ## #
+############################

checker-plugin/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+    <artifactId>checker-plugin</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>checker-plugin</name>
+    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+
+    <!-- https://checkerframework.org/manual/#maven -->
+
+    <properties>
+        <!-- These properties will be set by the Maven Dependency plugin -->
+        <annotatedJdk>${org.checkerframework:jdk8:jar}</annotatedJdk>
+        <!-- Uncomment to use the Type Annotations compiler. -->
+        <!--
+        <typeAnnotationsJavac>${org.checkerframework:compiler:jar}</typeAnnotationsJavac>
+        -->
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+
+
+        <!-- Annotations from the Checker Framework: nullness, interning, locking, ... -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>checker-qual</artifactId>
+            <version>2.3.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>checker</artifactId>
+            <version>2.3.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jdk8</artifactId>
+            <version>2.3.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <!-- The Type Annotations compiler. Uncomment if using annotations in comments. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>compiler</artifactId>
+            <version>2.3.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <!-- This plugin will set properties values using dependency information -->
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <!--
+                            Goal that sets a property pointing to the artifact file for each project dependency.
+                            For each dependency (direct and transitive) a project property will be set which
+                            follows the:
+
+                               groupId:artifactId:type:[classifier]
+
+                            form and contains the path to the resolved artifact. -->
+                            <goal>properties</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.6.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.8</source>
+                    <target>1.8</target>
+                    <!-- Uncomment the following line to use the type annotations compiler. -->
+                    <!-- <fork>true</fork> -->
+                    <compilerArguments>
+                        <Xmaxerrs>10000</Xmaxerrs>
+                        <Xmaxwarns>10000</Xmaxwarns>
+                    </compilerArguments>
+                    <annotationProcessors>
+                        <!-- Add all the checkers you want to enable here -->
+                        <annotationProcessor>org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.NullnessChecker</annotationProcessor>
+                        <annotationProcessor>org.checkerframework.checker.interning.InterningChecker</annotationProcessor>
+                        <annotationProcessor>org.checkerframework.checker.fenum.FenumChecker</annotationProcessor>
+                        <annotationProcessor>org.checkerframework.checker.formatter.FormatterChecker</annotationProcessor>
+                        <annotationProcessor>org.checkerframework.checker.regex.RegexChecker</annotationProcessor>
+                    </annotationProcessors>
+                    <compilerArgs>
+                        <arg>-AprintErrorStack</arg>
+
+                        <!-- location of the annotated JDK, which comes from a Maven dependency -->
+                        <arg>-Xbootclasspath/p:${annotatedJdk}</arg>
+                        <!--
+                        -->
+
+                        <!-- Uncomment the following line to use the type annotations compiler. -->
+                        <!--
+                        <arg>-J-Xbootclasspath/p:${typeAnnotationsJavac}</arg>
+                        -->
+                        <!-- Uncomment the following line to turn type-checking warnings into errors. -->
+                        <arg>-Awarns</arg>
+                    </compilerArgs>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+</project>

checker-plugin/src/main/java/com/baeldung/typechecker/FakeNumExample.java

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package com.baeldung.typechecker;
+
+import org.checkerframework.checker.fenum.qual.Fenum;
+
+//@SuppressWarnings("fenum:assignment.type.incompatible")
+public class FakeNumExample {
+
+    // Here we use some String constants to represents countries.
+    static final @Fenum("country") String ITALY = "IT";
+    static final @Fenum("country") String US = "US";
+    static final @Fenum("country") String UNITED_KINGDOM = "UK";
+
+    // Here we use other String constants to represent planets instead.
+    static final @Fenum("planet") String MARS = "Mars";
+    static final @Fenum("planet") String EARTH = "Earth";
+    static final @Fenum("planet") String VENUS = "Venus";
+
+    // Now we write this method and we want to be sure that
+    // the String parameter has a value of a country, not that is just a String.
+    void greetCountries(@Fenum("country") String country) {
+        System.out.println("Hello " + country);
+    }
+
+    // Similarly we're enforcing here that the provided
+    // parameter is a String that represent a planet.
+    void greetPlanets(@Fenum("planet") String planet) {
+        System.out.println("Hello " + planet);
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+        FakeNumExample obj = new FakeNumExample();
+
+        // This will fail because we pass a planet-String to a method that
+        // accept a country-String.
+        obj.greetCountries(MARS);
+
+        // Here the opposite happens.
+        obj.greetPlanets(US);
+    }
+
+}

checker-plugin/src/main/java/com/baeldung/typechecker/FormatExample.java

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package com.baeldung.typechecker;
+
+public class FormatExample {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+        // Just enabling org.checkerframework.checker.formatter.FormatterChecker
+        // we can be sure at compile time that the format strings we pass to format()
+        // are correct. Normally we would have those errors raised just at runtime.
+        // All those formats are in fact wrong.
+
+        String.format("%y", 7);           // error: invalid format string
+
+        String.format("%d", "a string");  // error: invalid argument type for %d
+
+        String.format("%d %s", 7);        // error: missing argument for %s
+
+        String.format("%d", 7, 3);        // warning: unused argument 3
+
+        String.format("{0}", 7);          // warning: unused argument 7, because {0} is wrong syntax
+    }
+
+}

checker-plugin/src/main/java/com/baeldung/typechecker/KeyForExample.java

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.baeldung.typechecker;
+
+import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.KeyFor;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class KeyForExample {
+
+    private final Map<String, String> config = new HashMap<>();
+
+    KeyForExample() {
+
+        // Here we initialize a map to store
+        // some config data.
+        config.put("url", "http://1.2.3.4");
+        config.put("name", "foobaz");
+    }
+
+    public void dumpPort() {
+
+        // Here, we want to dump the port value stored in the
+        // config, so we declare that this key has to be
+        // present in the config map.
+        // Obviously that will fail because such key is not present
+        // in the map.
+        @KeyFor("config") String key = "port";
+        System.out.println( config.get(key) );
+    }
+
+}

checker-plugin/src/main/java/com/baeldung/typechecker/MonotonicNotNullExample.java

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package com.baeldung.typechecker;
+
+import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.MonotonicNonNull;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+
+public class MonotonicNotNullExample {
+
+    // The idea is we need this field to be to lazily initialized,
+    // so it starts as null but once it becomes not null
+    // it cannot return null.
+    // In these cases, we can use @MonotonicNonNull
+    @MonotonicNonNull private Date firstCall;
+
+    public Date getFirstCall() {
+        if (firstCall == null) {
+            firstCall = new Date();
+        }
+        return firstCall;
+    }
+
+    public void reset() {
+        // This is reported as error because
+        // we wrongly set the field back to null.
+        firstCall = null;
+    }
+
+}

checker-plugin/src/main/java/com/baeldung/typechecker/NonNullExample.java

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package com.baeldung.typechecker;
+
+import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.NonNull;
+import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;
+
+public class NonNullExample {
+
+    // This method's parameter is annotated in order
+    // to tell the pluggable type system that it can never be null.
+    private static int countArgs(@NonNull String[] args) {
+        return args.length;
+    }
+
+    // This method's parameter is annotated in order
+    // to tell the pluggable type system that it may be null.
+    public static void main(@Nullable String[] args) {
+
+        // Here lies a potential error,
+        // because we pass a potential null reference to a method
+        // that does not accept nulls.
+        // The Checker Framework will spot this problem at compile time
+        // instead of runtime.
+        System.out.println(countArgs(args));
+
+    }
+
+}

checker-plugin/src/main/java/com/baeldung/typechecker/RegexExample.java

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package com.baeldung.typechecker;
+
+import org.checkerframework.checker.regex.qual.Regex;
+
+public class RegexExample {
+
+    // For some reason we want to be sure that this regex
+    // contains at least one capturing group.
+    // However, we do an error and we forgot to define such
+    // capturing group in it.
+    @Regex(1) private static String findNumbers = "\\d*";
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        String message = "My phone number is +3911223344.";
+        message.matches(findNumbers);
+    }
+
+}

core-groovy/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Groovy
+
+## Relevant articles:
+

core-groovy/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>core-groovy</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent-modules</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <id>central</id>
+            <url>http://jcenter.bintray.com</url>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+            <artifactId>groovy</artifactId>
+            <version>2.4.13</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+            <artifactId>groovy-sql</artifactId>
+            <version>2.4.13</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit.jupiter.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-platform-runner</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit.platform.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
+            <version>2.4.0</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.gmavenplus</groupId>
+                <artifactId>gmavenplus-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>addSources</goal>
+                            <goal>addTestSources</goal>
+                            <goal>compile</goal>
+                            <goal>compileTests</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</version>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.19.1</version>
+                <dependencies>
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>junit-platform-surefire-provider</artifactId>
+                        <version>${junit.platform.version}</version>
+                    </dependency>
+                </dependencies>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>junit5</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
+                            <goal>verify</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <includes>
+                                <include>**/*Test5.java</include>
+                            </includes>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <kotlin-maven-plugin.version>1.1.2</kotlin-maven-plugin.version>
+        <kotlin-test-junit.version>1.1.2</kotlin-test-junit.version>
+        <kotlin-stdlib.version>1.1.2</kotlin-stdlib.version>
+        <kotlin-reflect.version>1.1.2</kotlin-reflect.version>
+        <kotlinx.version>0.15</kotlinx.version>
+        <mockito-kotlin.version>1.5.0</mockito-kotlin.version>
+
+        <junit.jupiter.version>5.0.0</junit.jupiter.version>
+        <junit.platform.version>1.0.0</junit.platform.version>
+        <junit.vintage.version>4.12.0</junit.vintage.version>
+        <junit4.version>4.12</junit4.version>
+    </properties>
+
+</project>

core-groovy/src/test/groovy/com/baeldung/groovy/sql/SqlTest.groovy

@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+package com.baeldung.groovy.sql
+
+import groovy.sql.GroovyResultSet
+import groovy.sql.GroovyRowResult
+import groovy.sql.Sql
+import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
+import static org.junit.Assert.*
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class SqlTest {
+
+    final Map dbConnParams = [url: 'jdbc:hsqldb:mem:testDB', user: 'sa', password: '', driver: 'org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver']
+
+    @Test
+    void whenNewSqlInstance_thenDbIsAccessed() {
+        def sql = Sql.newInstance(dbConnParams)
+        sql.close()
+        sql.close()
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenTableDoesNotExist_thenSelectFails() {
+        try {
+            Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+                sql.eachRow('select * from PROJECT') {}
+            }
+
+            fail("An exception should have been thrown")
+        } catch (ignored) {
+            //Ok
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenTableCreated_thenSelectIsPossible() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            def result = sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_1 (id integer not null, name varchar(50), url varchar(100))'
+
+            assertEquals(0, sql.updateCount)
+            assertFalse(result)
+
+            result = sql.execute('select * from PROJECT_1')
+
+            assertTrue(result)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenIdentityColumn_thenInsertReturnsNewId() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_2 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+            def ids = sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_2 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+
+            assertEquals(0, ids[0][0])
+
+            ids = sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_2 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+
+            assertEquals(1, ids[0][0])
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenUpdate_thenNumberOfAffectedRows() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_3 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_3 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_3 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+            def count = sql.executeUpdate("UPDATE PROJECT_3 SET URL = 'https://' + URL")
+
+            assertEquals(2, count)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenEachRow_thenResultSetHasProperties() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_4 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_4 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_4 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'https://github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+
+            sql.eachRow("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_4") { GroovyResultSet rs ->
+                assertNotNull(rs.name)
+                assertNotNull(rs.url)
+                assertNotNull(rs[0])
+                assertNotNull(rs[1])
+                assertNotNull(rs[2])
+                assertEquals(rs.name, rs['name'])
+                assertEquals(rs.url, rs['url'])
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenPagination_thenSubsetIsReturned() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_5 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_5 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_5 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+            def rows = sql.rows('SELECT * FROM PROJECT_5 ORDER BY NAME', 1, 1)
+
+            assertEquals(1, rows.size())
+            assertEquals('REST with Spring', rows[0].name)
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenParameters_thenReplacement() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_6 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+            sql.execute('INSERT INTO PROJECT_6 (NAME, URL) VALUES (?, ?)', 'tutorials', 'github.com/eugenp/tutorials')
+            sql.execute("INSERT INTO PROJECT_6 (NAME, URL) VALUES (:name, :url)", [name: 'REST with Spring', url: 'github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring'])
+
+            def rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_6 WHERE NAME = 'tutorials'")
+
+            assertEquals(1, rows.size())
+
+            rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_6 WHERE NAME = 'REST with Spring'")
+
+            assertEquals(1, rows.size())
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenParametersInGString_thenReplacement() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_7 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+            sql.execute "INSERT INTO PROJECT_7 (NAME, URL) VALUES (${'tutorials'}, ${'github.com/eugenp/tutorials'})"
+            def name = 'REST with Spring'
+            def url = 'github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring'
+            sql.execute "INSERT INTO PROJECT_7 (NAME, URL) VALUES (${name}, ${url})"
+
+            def rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_7 WHERE NAME = 'tutorials'")
+
+            assertEquals(1, rows.size())
+
+            rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_7 WHERE NAME = 'REST with Spring'")
+
+            assertEquals(1, rows.size())
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenTransactionRollback_thenNoDataInserted() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.withTransaction {
+                sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_8 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+                sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_8 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+                sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_8 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'https://github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+                sql.rollback()
+
+                def rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_8")
+
+                assertEquals(0, rows.size())
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenTransactionRollbackThenCommit_thenOnlyLastInserted() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.withTransaction {
+                sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_9 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+                sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_9 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+                sql.rollback()
+                sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_9 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'https://github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+                sql.rollback()
+                sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_9 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+                sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_9 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'https://github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+            }
+
+            def rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_9")
+
+            assertEquals(2, rows.size())
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenException_thenTransactionIsRolledBack() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            try {
+                sql.withTransaction {
+                    sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_10 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+                    sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_10 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+                    throw new Exception('rollback')
+                }
+            } catch (ignored) {}
+
+            def rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_10")
+
+            assertEquals(0, rows.size())
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void givenCachedConnection_whenException_thenDataIsPersisted() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            try {
+                sql.cacheConnection {
+                    sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_11 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+                    sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_11 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+                    throw new Exception('This does not rollback')
+                }
+            } catch (ignored) {}
+
+            def rows = sql.rows("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_11")
+
+            assertEquals(1, rows.size())
+        }
+    }
+
+    /*@Test
+    void whenModifyResultSet_thenDataIsChanged() {
+        Sql.withInstance(dbConnParams) { Sql sql ->
+            sql.execute 'create table PROJECT_5 (ID IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR (50), URL VARCHAR (100))'
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_5 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('tutorials', 'github.com/eugenp/tutorials')")
+            sql.executeInsert("INSERT INTO PROJECT_5 (NAME, URL) VALUES ('REST with Spring', 'github.com/eugenp/REST-With-Spring')")
+
+            sql.eachRow("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_5 FOR UPDATE ") { GroovyResultSet rs ->
+                rs['name'] = "The great ${rs.name}!" as String
+                rs.updateRow()
+            }
+
+            sql.eachRow("SELECT * FROM PROJECT_5") { GroovyResultSet rs ->
+                assertTrue(rs.name.startsWith('The great '))
+            }
+        }
+    }*/
+
+}

core-java-8/README.md

@@ -40,3 +40,4 @@
 - [Efficient Word Frequency Calculator in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-word-frequency)
 - [Primitive Type Streams in Java 8](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-primitive-streams)
 - [Fail-Safe Iterator vs Fail-Fast Iterator](http://www.baeldung.com/java-fail-safe-vs-fail-fast-iterator)
+- [Shuffling Collections In Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-shuffle-collection)

core-java-8/src/test/java/com/baeldung/shufflingcollections/ShufflingCollectionsUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package com.baeldung.shufflingcollections;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+public class ShufflingCollectionsUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenShufflingList_thenListIsShuffled() {
+        List<String> students = Arrays.asList("Foo", "Bar", "Baz", "Qux");
+
+        System.out.println("List before shuffling:");
+        System.out.println(students);
+
+        Collections.shuffle(students);
+        System.out.println("List after shuffling:");
+        System.out.println(students);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenShufflingMapEntries_thenValuesAreShuffled() {
+        Map<Integer, String> studentsById = new HashMap<>();
+        studentsById.put(1, "Foo");
+        studentsById.put(2, "Bar");
+        studentsById.put(3, "Baz");
+        studentsById.put(4, "Qux");
+
+        System.out.println("Students before shuffling:");
+        System.out.println(studentsById.values());
+
+        List<Map.Entry<Integer, String>> shuffledStudentEntries = new ArrayList<>(studentsById.entrySet());
+        Collections.shuffle(shuffledStudentEntries);
+
+        List<String> shuffledStudents = shuffledStudentEntries.stream()
+                .map(Map.Entry::getValue)
+                .collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+        System.out.println("Students after shuffling");
+        System.out.println(shuffledStudents);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenShufflingSet_thenElementsAreShuffled() {
+        Set<String> students = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList("Foo", "Bar", "Baz", "Qux"));
+
+        System.out.println("Set before shuffling:");
+        System.out.println(students);
+
+        List<String> studentList = new ArrayList<>(students);
+
+        Collections.shuffle(studentList);
+        System.out.println("Shuffled set elements:");
+        System.out.println(studentList);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenShufflingWithSameRandomness_thenElementsAreShuffledDeterministically() {
+        List<String> students_1 = Arrays.asList("Foo", "Bar", "Baz", "Qux");
+        List<String> students_2 = Arrays.asList("Foo", "Bar", "Baz", "Qux");
+
+        Collections.shuffle(students_1, new Random(5));
+        Collections.shuffle(students_2, new Random(5));
+
+        assertThat(students_1).isEqualTo(students_2);
+    }
+}

core-java-9/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java9/httpclient/SimpleHttpRequestsUnitTest.java

@@ -1,126 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.java9.httpclient;
-
-import static java.net.HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.CookieManager;
-import java.net.CookiePolicy;
-import java.net.URI;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
-import java.net.http.HttpClient;
-import java.net.http.HttpHeaders;
-import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
-import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
-import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
-import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
-
-import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
-import javax.net.ssl.SSLParameters;
-
-import org.junit.Before;
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-public class SimpleHttpRequestsUnitTest {
-
-    private URI httpURI;
-
-    @Before
-    public void init() throws URISyntaxException {
-        httpURI = new URI("http://www.baeldung.com/");
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void quickGet() throws IOException, InterruptedException, URISyntaxException {
-        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.create(httpURI).GET();
-        HttpResponse response = request.response();
-        int responseStatusCode = response.statusCode();
-        String responseBody = response.body(HttpResponse.asString());
-        assertTrue("Get response status code is bigger then 400", responseStatusCode < 400);
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void asynchronousGet() throws URISyntaxException, IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
-        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.create(httpURI).GET();
-        long before = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        CompletableFuture<HttpResponse> futureResponse = request.responseAsync();
-        futureResponse.thenAccept(response -> {
-            String responseBody = response.body(HttpResponse.asString());
-        });
-        HttpResponse resp = futureResponse.get();
-        HttpHeaders hs = resp.headers();
-        assertTrue("There should be more then 1 header.", hs.map().size() > 1);
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void postMehtod() throws URISyntaxException, IOException, InterruptedException {
-        HttpRequest.Builder requestBuilder = HttpRequest.create(httpURI);
-        requestBuilder.body(HttpRequest.fromString("param1=foo,param2=bar")).followRedirects(HttpClient.Redirect.SECURE);
-        HttpRequest request = requestBuilder.POST();
-        HttpResponse response = request.response();
-        int statusCode = response.statusCode();
-        assertTrue("HTTP return code", statusCode == HTTP_OK);
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void configureHttpClient() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, URISyntaxException, IOException, InterruptedException {
-        CookieManager cManager = new CookieManager();
-        cManager.setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER);
-
-        SSLParameters sslParam = new SSLParameters(new String[] { "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256" }, new String[] { "TLSv1.2" });
-
-        HttpClient.Builder hcBuilder = HttpClient.create();
-        hcBuilder.cookieManager(cManager).sslContext(SSLContext.getDefault()).sslParameters(sslParam);
-        HttpClient httpClient = hcBuilder.build();
-        HttpRequest.Builder reqBuilder = httpClient.request(new URI("https://www.facebook.com"));
-
-        HttpRequest request = reqBuilder.followRedirects(HttpClient.Redirect.ALWAYS).GET();
-        HttpResponse response = request.response();
-        int statusCode = response.statusCode();
-        assertTrue("HTTP return code", statusCode == HTTP_OK);
-    }
-
-    SSLParameters getDefaultSSLParameters() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
-        SSLParameters sslP1 = SSLContext.getDefault().getSupportedSSLParameters();
-        String[] proto = sslP1.getApplicationProtocols();
-        String[] cifers = sslP1.getCipherSuites();
-        System.out.println(printStringArr(proto));
-        System.out.println(printStringArr(cifers));
-        return sslP1;
-    }
-
-    String printStringArr(String... args) {
-        if (args == null) {
-            return null;
-        }
-        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-        for (String s : args) {
-            sb.append(s);
-            sb.append("\n");
-        }
-        return sb.toString();
-    }
-
-    String printHeaders(HttpHeaders h) {
-        if (h == null) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-        Map<String, List<String>> hMap = h.map();
-        for (String k : hMap.keySet()) {
-            sb.append(k).append(":");
-            List<String> l = hMap.get(k);
-            if (l != null) {
-                l.forEach(s -> {
-                    sb.append(s).append(",");
-                });
-            }
-            sb.append("\n");
-        }
-        return sb.toString();
-    }
-}

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/prioritytaskexecution/Job.java

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ public class Job implements Runnable {
     @Override
     public void run() {
         try {
-            System.out.println("Job:" + jobName + " Priority:" + jobPriority);
+            System.out.println("Job:" + jobName + 
+              " Priority:" + jobPriority);
             Thread.sleep(1000);
         } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
         }

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/prioritytaskexecution/PriorityJobScheduler.java

@@ -9,21 +9,21 @@ import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 public class PriorityJobScheduler {
 
     private ExecutorService priorityJobPoolExecutor;
-    private ExecutorService priorityJobScheduler;
-    private PriorityBlockingQueue<Runnable> priorityQueue;
+    private ExecutorService priorityJobScheduler = 
+      Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
+    private PriorityBlockingQueue<Job> priorityQueue;
 
     public PriorityJobScheduler(Integer poolSize, Integer queueSize) {
         priorityJobPoolExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(poolSize);
-        Comparator<? super Job> jobComparator = Comparator.comparing(Job::getJobPriority);
-        priorityQueue = new PriorityBlockingQueue<Runnable>(queueSize, 
-          (Comparator<? super Runnable>) jobComparator);
+        priorityQueue = new PriorityBlockingQueue<Job>(queueSize, 
+          Comparator.comparing(Job::getJobPriority));
 
-        priorityJobScheduler = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
         priorityJobScheduler.execute(()->{
             while (true) {
                 try {
                     priorityJobPoolExecutor.execute(priorityQueue.take());
                 } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    // exception needs special handling
                     break;
                 }
             }

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/threadlifecycle/BlockedState.java

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.baeldung.concurrent.threadlifecycle;
+
+public class BlockedState {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+        Thread t1 = new Thread(new DemoThreadB());
+        Thread t2 = new Thread(new DemoThreadB());
+        
+        t1.start();
+        t2.start();
+        
+        Thread.sleep(1000);
+        
+        System.out.println(t2.getState());
+        System.exit(0);
+    }
+}
+
+class DemoThreadB implements Runnable {
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        commonResource();
+    }
+    
+    public static synchronized void commonResource() {
+        while(true) {
+            // Infinite loop to mimic heavy processing
+            // Thread 't1' won't leave this method
+            // when Thread 't2' enters this
+        }
+    }
+}

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/threadlifecycle/NewState.java

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package com.baeldung.concurrent.threadlifecycle;
+
+public class NewState implements Runnable {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        Runnable runnable = new NewState();
+        Thread t = new Thread(runnable);
+        System.out.println(t.getState());
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        
+    }
+}

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/threadlifecycle/RunnableState.java

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package com.baeldung.concurrent.threadlifecycle;
+
+public class RunnableState implements Runnable {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        Runnable runnable = new NewState();
+        Thread t = new Thread(runnable);
+        t.start();
+        System.out.println(t.getState());
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        
+    }
+}

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/threadlifecycle/TerminatedState.java

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package com.baeldung.concurrent.threadlifecycle;
+
+public class TerminatedState implements Runnable {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+        Thread t1 = new Thread(new TerminatedState());
+        t1.start();
+        Thread.sleep(1000);
+        System.out.println(t1.getState());
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        // No processing in this block
+    }
+}

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/threadlifecycle/TimedWaitingState.java

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.baeldung.concurrent.threadlifecycle;
+
+public class TimedWaitingState {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+        DemoThread obj1 = new DemoThread();
+        Thread t1 = new Thread(obj1);
+        t1.start();
+        // The following sleep will give enough time for ThreadScheduler
+        // to start processing of thread t1
+        Thread.sleep(1000);
+        System.out.println(t1.getState());
+    }
+}
+
+class DemoThread implements Runnable {
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        try {
+            Thread.sleep(5000);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+}

core-java-concurrency/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/threadlifecycle/WaitingState.java

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package com.baeldung.concurrent.threadlifecycle;
+
+public class WaitingState implements Runnable {
+    public static Thread t1;
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        t1 = new Thread(new WaitingState());
+        t1.start();
+    }
+
+    public void run() {
+        Thread t2 = new Thread(new DemoThreadWS());
+        t2.start();
+
+        try {
+            t2.join();
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+class DemoThreadWS implements Runnable {
+    public void run() {
+        try {
+            Thread.sleep(1000);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        
+        System.out.println(WaitingState.t1.getState());
+    }
+}

core-java-concurrency/src/test/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/prioritytaskexecution/PriorityJobSchedulerUnitTest.java

@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ public class PriorityJobSchedulerUnitTest {
         // delay to avoid job sleep (added for demo) being interrupted
         try {
             Thread.sleep(2000);
-        } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
         }
         
         pjs.closeScheduler();

core-java/pom.xml

@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
             <version>${jackson.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+            <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+            <version>${gson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
 
         <!-- logging -->
         <dependency>
@@ -468,6 +473,7 @@
     <properties>
         <!-- marshalling -->
         <jackson.version>2.8.5</jackson.version>
+        <gson.version>2.8.2</gson.version>
 
         <!-- logging -->
         <org.slf4j.version>1.7.21</org.slf4j.version>

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/casting/Animal.java

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package com.baeldung.casting;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class Animal {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Animal.class);
+
+    public void eat() {
+        LOGGER.info("animal is eating");
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/casting/AnimalFeeder.java

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package com.baeldung.casting;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class AnimalFeeder {
+
+    public void feed(List<Animal> animals) {
+        animals.forEach(animal -> {
+            animal.eat();
+            if (animal instanceof Cat) {
+                ((Cat) animal).meow();
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
+    public void uncheckedFeed(List<Animal> animals) {
+        animals.forEach(animal -> {
+            animal.eat();
+            ((Cat) animal).meow();
+        });
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/casting/Cat.java

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package com.baeldung.casting;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class Cat extends Animal implements Mew {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Cat.class);
+
+    public void eat() {
+        LOGGER.info("cat is eating");
+    }
+
+    public void meow() {
+        LOGGER.info("meow");
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/casting/Dog.java

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package com.baeldung.casting;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class Dog extends Animal {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Dog.class);
+
+    public void eat() {
+        LOGGER.info("dog is eating");
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/casting/Mew.java

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package com.baeldung.casting;
+
+public interface Mew {
+    public void meow();
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/deepcopy/Address.java

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package com.baeldung.deepcopy;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+public class Address implements Serializable, Cloneable {
+
+    @Override
+    public Object clone() {
+        try {
+            return (Address) super.clone();
+        } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
+            return new Address(this.street, this.getCity(), this.getCountry());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1740913841244949416L;
+    private String street;
+    private String city;
+
+    private String country;
+
+    public Address(Address that) {
+        this(that.getStreet(), that.getCity(), that.getCountry());
+    }
+
+    public Address(String street, String city, String country) {
+        this.street = street;
+        this.city = city;
+        this.country = country;
+    }
+
+    public Address() {
+    }
+
+    public String getStreet() {
+        return street;
+    }
+
+    public String getCity() {
+        return city;
+    }
+
+    public String getCountry() {
+        return country;
+    }
+
+    public void setStreet(String street) {
+        this.street = street;
+    }
+
+    public void setCity(String city) {
+        this.city = city;
+    }
+
+    public void setCountry(String country) {
+        this.country = country;
+    }
+}
+

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/deepcopy/User.java

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package com.baeldung.deepcopy;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+public class User implements Serializable, Cloneable {
+
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = -3427002229954777557L;
+    private String firstName;
+    private String lastName;
+    private Address address;
+
+    public User(String firstName, String lastName, Address address) {
+        this.firstName = firstName;
+        this.lastName = lastName;
+        this.address = address;
+    }
+
+    public User(User that) {
+        this(that.getFirstName(), that.getLastName(), new Address(that.getAddress()));
+    }
+
+    public User() {
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object clone() {
+        User user;
+        try {
+            user = (User) super.clone();
+        } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
+            user = new User(this.getFirstName(), this.getLastName(), this.getAddress());
+        }
+        user.address = (Address) this.address.clone();
+        return user;
+    }
+
+    public String getFirstName() {
+        return firstName;
+    }
+
+    public String getLastName() {
+        return lastName;
+    }
+
+    public Address getAddress() {
+        return address;
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/AuthenticationProcessor.java

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+public abstract class AuthenticationProcessor {
+
+    // next element in chain or responsibility
+    public AuthenticationProcessor nextProcessor;
+    
+    public AuthenticationProcessor(AuthenticationProcessor nextProcessor) {
+        this.nextProcessor = nextProcessor;
+    }
+
+    public abstract boolean isAuthorized(AuthenticationProvider authProvider);
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/AuthenticationProvider.java

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+public interface AuthenticationProvider {
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/OAuthAuthenticationProcessor.java

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+public class OAuthAuthenticationProcessor extends AuthenticationProcessor {
+
+    public OAuthAuthenticationProcessor(AuthenticationProcessor nextProcessor) {
+        super(nextProcessor);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isAuthorized(AuthenticationProvider authProvider) {
+
+        if (authProvider instanceof OAuthTokenProvider) {
+            return Boolean.TRUE;
+        } else if (nextProcessor != null) {
+            return nextProcessor.isAuthorized(authProvider);
+        } else {
+            return Boolean.FALSE;
+        }
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/OAuthTokenProvider.java

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+public class OAuthTokenProvider implements AuthenticationProvider {
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/SamlAuthenticationProvider.java

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+public class SamlAuthenticationProvider implements AuthenticationProvider {
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/UsernamePasswordAuthenticationProcessor.java

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+public class UsernamePasswordAuthenticationProcessor extends AuthenticationProcessor {
+
+    public UsernamePasswordAuthenticationProcessor(AuthenticationProcessor nextProcessor) {
+        super(nextProcessor);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isAuthorized(AuthenticationProvider authProvider) {
+        if (authProvider instanceof UsernamePasswordProvider) {
+            return Boolean.TRUE;
+        } else if (nextProcessor != null) {
+            return nextProcessor.isAuthorized(authProvider);
+        } else {
+            return Boolean.FALSE;
+        }
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/UsernamePasswordProvider.java

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+public class UsernamePasswordProvider implements AuthenticationProvider {
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java/list/CustomList.java

@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+package com.baeldung.java.list;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.ListIterator;
+
+public class CustomList<E> implements List<E> {
+    private Object[] internal = {};
+
+    @Override
+    public void add(int index, E element) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean addAll(Collection<? extends E> collection) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean addAll(int index, Collection<? extends E> collection) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public E remove(int index) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean remove(Object object) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean removeAll(Collection<?> collection) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean retainAll(Collection<?> collection) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int size() {
+        return internal.length;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isEmpty() {
+        return internal.length == 0;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean add(E element) {
+        // the first cycle
+        // internal = new Object[1];
+        // internal[0] = element;
+        // return true;
+
+        Object[] temp = new Object[internal.length + 1];
+        System.arraycopy(internal, 0, temp, 0, internal.length);
+        temp[internal.length] = element;
+        internal = temp;
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    @Override
+    public E get(int index) {
+        return (E) internal[index];
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean contains(Object object) {
+        // return false
+
+        for (Object element : internal) {
+            if (object.equals(element)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean containsAll(Collection<?> collection) {
+        // the first cycle
+        // for (Object element : collection) {
+        //     if (element.equals(internal[0])) {
+        //         return true;
+        //     }
+        // }
+        // return false;
+
+        for (Object element : collection)
+            if (!contains(element)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    @Override
+    public E set(int index, E element) {
+        E oldElement = (E) internal[index];
+        internal[index] = element;
+        return oldElement;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void clear() {
+        internal = new Object[0];
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int indexOf(Object object) {
+        // the first cycle
+        // if (object.equals(internal[0])) {
+        //     return 0;
+        // }
+        // return -1;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < internal.length; i++) {
+            if (object.equals(internal[i])) {
+                return i;
+            }
+        }
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int lastIndexOf(Object object) {
+        // the first cycle
+        // if (object.equals(internal[0])) {
+        //     return 0;
+        // }
+        // return -1;
+
+        for (int i = internal.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+            if (object.equals(internal[i])) {
+                return i;
+            }
+        }
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    @Override
+    public List<E> subList(int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
+        // the first cycle
+        // return (List<E>) Arrays.asList(internal);
+
+        Object[] temp = new Object[toIndex - fromIndex];
+        System.arraycopy(internal, fromIndex, temp, 0, temp.length);
+        return (List<E>) Arrays.asList(temp);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object[] toArray() {
+        return Arrays.copyOf(internal, internal.length);
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    @Override
+    public <T> T[] toArray(T[] array) {
+        // the first cycle
+        // array[0] = (T) internal[0];
+        // return array;
+
+        // the second cycle
+        // if (array.length < internal.length) {
+        //     return (T[]) Arrays.copyOf(internal, internal.length, array.getClass());
+        // }
+        // return (T[]) Arrays.copyOf(internal, internal.length, array.getClass());
+
+        if (array.length < internal.length) {
+            return (T[]) Arrays.copyOf(internal, internal.length, array.getClass());
+        }
+
+        System.arraycopy(internal, 0, array, 0, internal.length);
+        if (array.length > internal.length) {
+            array[internal.length] = null;
+        }
+        return array;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Iterator<E> iterator() {
+        return new CustomIterator();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ListIterator<E> listIterator() {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ListIterator<E> listIterator(int index) {
+        // ignored for brevity
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private class CustomIterator implements Iterator<E> {
+        int index;
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean hasNext() {
+            // the first cycle
+            // return true;
+
+            return index != internal.length;
+        }
+
+        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+        @Override
+        public E next() {
+            // the first cycle
+            // return (E) CustomList.this.internal[0];
+
+            E element = (E) CustomList.this.internal[index];
+            index++;
+            return element;
+        }
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/methodoverloadingoverriding/application/Application.java

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.application;
+
+import com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.model.Car;
+import com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.model.Vehicle;
+import com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.util.Multiplier;
+
+public class Application {
+    
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        Multiplier multiplier = new Multiplier();
+        System.out.println(multiplier.multiply(10, 10));
+        System.out.println(multiplier.multiply(10, 10, 10));
+        System.out.println(multiplier.multiply(10, 10.5));
+        System.out.println(multiplier.multiply(10.5, 10.5));
+        
+        Vehicle vehicle = new Vehicle();
+        System.out.println(vehicle.accelerate(100));
+        System.out.println(vehicle.run());
+        System.out.println(vehicle.stop());
+        
+        Vehicle car = new Car();
+        System.out.println(car.accelerate(80));
+        System.out.println(car.run());
+        System.out.println(car.stop());
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/methodoverloadingoverriding/model/Car.java

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+package com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.model;
+
+public class Car extends Vehicle {
+
+    @Override
+    public String accelerate(long mph) {
+        return "The car accelerates at : " + mph + " MPH.";
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/methodoverloadingoverriding/model/Vehicle.java

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.model;
+
+public class Vehicle {
+    
+    public String accelerate(long mph) {
+        return "The vehicle accelerates at : " + mph + " MPH.";
+    }
+    
+    public String stop() {
+        return "The vehicle has stopped.";
+    }
+    
+    public String run() {
+        return "The vehicle is running.";
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/methodoverloadingoverriding/util/Multiplier.java

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.util;
+
+public class Multiplier {
+    
+    public int multiply(int a, int b) {
+        return a * b;
+    }
+    
+    public int multiply(int a, int b, int c) {
+        return a * b * c;
+    }
+    
+    public double multiply(double a, double b) {
+        return a * b;
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/resourcebundle/ExampleControl.java

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package com.baeldung.resourcebundle;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.ResourceBundle;
+
+public class ExampleControl extends ResourceBundle.Control {
+
+    @Override
+    public List<Locale> getCandidateLocales(String s, Locale locale) {
+        return Arrays.asList(new Locale("pl", "PL"));
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/resourcebundle/ExampleResource.java

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package com.baeldung.resourcebundle;
+
+import java.util.ListResourceBundle;
+
+public class ExampleResource extends ListResourceBundle {
+
+    @Override
+    protected Object[][] getContents() {
+        return new Object[][] { 
+            { "greeting", "hello" } 
+        };
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/resourcebundle/ExampleResource_pl.java

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package com.baeldung.resourcebundle;
+
+import java.util.ListResourceBundle;
+
+public class ExampleResource_pl extends ListResourceBundle {
+
+    @Override
+    protected Object[][] getContents() {
+        return new Object[][] { 
+            { "greeting", "cześć" }, 
+            { "language", "polish" }, 
+        };
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/resourcebundle/ExampleResource_pl_PL.java

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package com.baeldung.resourcebundle;
+
+import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.util.ListResourceBundle;
+
+public class ExampleResource_pl_PL extends ListResourceBundle {
+
+    @Override
+    protected Object[][] getContents() {
+        return new Object[][] { 
+            { "currency", "polish zloty" }, 
+            { "toUsdRate", new BigDecimal("3.401") },
+            { "cities", new String[] { "Warsaw", "Cracow" } } 
+        };
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/Palindrome.java

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package com.baeldung.string;
+
+import java.util.stream.IntStream;
+
+public class Palindrome {
+
+    public boolean isPalindrome(String text) {
+        String clean = text.replaceAll("\\s+", "").toLowerCase();
+        int length = clean.length();
+        int forward = 0;
+        int backward = length - 1;
+        while (backward > forward) {
+            char forwardChar = clean.charAt(forward++);
+            char backwardChar = clean.charAt(backward--);
+            if (forwardChar != backwardChar)
+                return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isPalindromeReverseTheString(String text) {
+        StringBuilder reverse = new StringBuilder();
+        String clean = text.replaceAll("\\s+", "").toLowerCase();
+        char[] plain = clean.toCharArray();
+        for (int i = plain.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+            reverse.append(plain[i]);
+        return (reverse.toString()).equals(clean);
+    }
+
+    public boolean isPalindromeUsingStringBuilder(String text) {
+        String clean = text.replaceAll("\\s+", "").toLowerCase();
+        StringBuilder plain = new StringBuilder(clean);
+        StringBuilder reverse = plain.reverse();
+        return (reverse.toString()).equals(clean);
+    }
+
+    public boolean isPalindromeUsingStringBuffer(String text) {
+        String clean = text.replaceAll("\\s+", "").toLowerCase();
+        StringBuffer plain = new StringBuffer(clean);
+        StringBuffer reverse = plain.reverse();
+        return (reverse.toString()).equals(clean);
+    }
+
+    public boolean isPalindromeRecursive(String text) {
+        String clean = text.replaceAll("\\s+", "").toLowerCase();
+        return recursivePalindrome(clean, 0, clean.length() - 1);
+    }
+
+    private boolean recursivePalindrome(String text, int forward, int backward) {
+        if (forward == backward)
+            return true;
+        if ((text.charAt(forward)) != (text.charAt(backward)))
+            return false;
+        if (forward < backward + 1) {
+            return recursivePalindrome(text, forward + 1, backward - 1);
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isPalindromeUsingIntStream(String text) {
+        String temp = text.replaceAll("\\s+", "").toLowerCase();
+        return IntStream.range(0, temp.length() / 2)
+            .noneMatch(i -> temp.charAt(i) != temp.charAt(temp.length() - i - 1));
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/resources/resourcebundle/resource.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Buttons
+cancelButton=cancel
+continueButton continue
+
+! Labels
+helloLabel:hello

core-java/src/main/resources/resourcebundle/resource_en.properties

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+deleteButton=delete

core-java/src/main/resources/resourcebundle/resource_pl_PL.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+backButton=cofnij
+helloLabel=cze\u015b\u0107
+helloLabelNoEncoding=cześć

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/casting/CastingTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package com.baeldung.casting;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class CastingTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenPrimitiveConverted_thenValueChanged() {
+        double myDouble = 1.1;
+        int myInt = (int) myDouble;
+        assertNotEquals(myDouble, myInt);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUpcast_thenInstanceUnchanged() {
+        Cat cat = new Cat();
+        Animal animal = cat;
+        animal = (Animal) cat;
+        assertTrue(animal instanceof Cat);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUpcastToObject_thenInstanceUnchanged() {
+        Object object = new Animal();
+        assertTrue(object instanceof Animal);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUpcastToInterface_thenInstanceUnchanged() {
+        Mew mew = new Cat();
+        assertTrue(mew instanceof Cat);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUpcastToAnimal_thenOverridenMethodsCalled() {
+        List<Animal> animals = new ArrayList<>();
+        animals.add(new Cat());
+        animals.add(new Dog());
+        new AnimalFeeder().feed(animals);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenDowncastToCat_thenMeowIsCalled() {
+        Animal animal = new Cat();
+        ((Cat) animal).meow();
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = ClassCastException.class)
+    public void whenDownCastWithoutCheck_thenExceptionThrown() {
+        List<Animal> animals = new ArrayList<>();
+        animals.add(new Cat());
+        animals.add(new Dog());
+        new AnimalFeeder().uncheckedFeed(animals);
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/decimalformat/DecimalFormatExamplesTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.decimalformat;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.text.DecimalFormat;
+import java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols;
+import java.text.NumberFormat;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class DecimalFormatExamplesTest {
+
+	double d = 1234567.89;
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenSimpleDecimal_WhenFormatting_ThenCorrectOutput() {
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#.##", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1234567.89");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("0.00", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1234567.89");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#########.###", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1234567.89");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("000000000.000", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("001234567.890");
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenSmallerDecimalPattern_WhenFormatting_ThenRounding() {
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#.#", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d)).isEqualTo("1234567.9");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d)).isEqualTo("1234568");
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenGroupingSeparator_WhenFormatting_ThenGroupedOutput() {
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#,###.#", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1,234,567.9");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#,###", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1,234,568");
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenMixedPattern_WhenFormatting_ThenCorrectOutput() {
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("The # number", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("The 1234568 number");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("The '#' # number", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("The # 1234568 number");
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenLocales_WhenFormatting_ThenCorrectOutput() {
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#,###.##", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1,234,567.89");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#,###.##", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ITALIAN)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1.234.567,89");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("#,###.##", DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance(new Locale("it", "IT"))).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1.234.567,89");
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenE_WhenFormatting_ThenScientificNotation() {
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("00.#######E0", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("12.3456789E5");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("000.000000E0", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("123.456789E4");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("##0.######E0", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1.23456789E6");
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("###.000000E0", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).format(d))
+				.isEqualTo("1.23456789E6");
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenString_WhenParsing_ThenCorrectOutput() throws ParseException {
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH)).parse("1234567.89"))
+				.isEqualTo(1234567.89);
+
+		assertThat(new DecimalFormat("", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ITALIAN)).parse("1.234.567,89"))
+				.isEqualTo(1234567.89);
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void givenStringAndBigDecimalFlag_WhenParsing_ThenCorrectOutput() throws ParseException {
+
+		NumberFormat nf = new DecimalFormat("", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.ENGLISH));
+		((DecimalFormat) nf).setParseBigDecimal(true);
+		assertThat(nf.parse("1234567.89")).isEqualTo(BigDecimal.valueOf(1234567.89));
+	}
+
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/deepcopy/DeepCopyUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package com.baeldung.deepcopy;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
+
+public class DeepCopyUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCreatingDeepCopyWithCopyConstructor_thenObjectsShouldNotBeSame() {
+
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+
+        User deepCopy = new User(pm);
+
+        assertThat(deepCopy).isNotSameAs(pm);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenModifyingOriginalObject_thenConstructorCopyShouldNotChange() {
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+        User deepCopy = new User(pm);
+
+        address.setCountry("Great Britain");
+
+        assertThat(deepCopy.getAddress().getCountry()).isNotEqualTo(pm.getAddress().getCountry());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenModifyingOriginalObject_thenCloneCopyShouldNotChange() {
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+        User deepCopy = (User) pm.clone();
+
+        address.setCountry("Great Britain");
+
+        assertThat(deepCopy.getAddress().getCountry()).isNotEqualTo(pm.getAddress().getCountry());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenModifyingOriginalObject_thenCommonsCloneShouldNotChange() {
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+        User deepCopy = (User) SerializationUtils.clone(pm);
+
+        address.setCountry("Great Britain");
+
+        assertThat(deepCopy.getAddress().getCountry()).isNotEqualTo(pm.getAddress().getCountry());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenModifyingOriginalObject_thenGsonCloneShouldNotChange() {
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+        Gson gson = new Gson();
+        User deepCopy = gson.fromJson(gson.toJson(pm), User.class);
+
+        address.setCountry("Great Britain");
+
+        assertThat(deepCopy.getAddress().getCountry()).isNotEqualTo(pm.getAddress().getCountry());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenModifyingOriginalObject_thenJacksonCopyShouldNotChange() throws IOException {
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        User deepCopy = objectMapper.readValue(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(pm), User.class);
+
+        address.setCountry("Great Britain");
+
+        assertThat(deepCopy.getAddress().getCountry()).isNotEqualTo(pm.getAddress().getCountry());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @Ignore
+    public void whenMakingCopies_thenShowHowLongEachMethodTakes() throws CloneNotSupportedException, IOException {
+        int times = 1000000;
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+
+        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        for (int i = 0; i < times; i++) {
+            User primeMinisterClone = (User) SerializationUtils.clone(pm);
+        }
+        long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        System.out.println("Cloning with Apache Commons Lang took " + (end - start) + " milliseconds.");
+
+        start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        Gson gson = new Gson();
+        for (int i = 0; i < times; i++) {
+            User primeMinisterClone = gson.fromJson(gson.toJson(pm), User.class);
+        }
+        end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        System.out.println("Cloning with Gson took " + (end - start) + " milliseconds.");
+
+        start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        for (int i = 0; i < times; i++) {
+            User primeMinisterClone = new User(pm);
+        }
+        end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        System.out.println("Cloning with the copy constructor took " + (end - start) + " milliseconds.");
+
+        start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        for (int i = 0; i < times; i++) {
+            User primeMinisterClone = (User) pm.clone();
+        }
+        end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        System.out.println("Cloning with Cloneable interface took " + (end - start) + " milliseconds.");
+
+        start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        for (int i = 0; i < times; i++) {
+            User primeMinisterClone = objectMapper.readValue(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(pm), User.class);
+        }
+        end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        System.out.println("Cloning with Jackson took " + (end - start) + " milliseconds.");
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/deepcopy/ShallowCopyUnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.deepcopy;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class ShallowCopyUnitTest {
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenShallowCopying_thenObjectsShouldNotBeSame() {
+
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+
+        User shallowCopy = new User(pm.getFirstName(), pm.getLastName(), pm.getAddress());
+
+        assertThat(shallowCopy)
+                .isNotSameAs(pm);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenModifyingOriginalObject_thenCopyShouldChange() {
+        Address address = new Address("Downing St 10", "London", "England");
+        User pm = new User("Prime", "Minister", address);
+        User shallowCopy = new User(pm.getFirstName(), pm.getLastName(), pm.getAddress());
+
+        address.setCountry("Great Britain");
+        
+        assertThat(shallowCopy.getAddress().getCountry())
+                .isEqualTo(pm.getAddress().getCountry());
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/designpatterns/chainofresponsibility/ChainOfResponsibilityTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package com.baeldung.designpatterns.chainofresponsibility;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class ChainOfResponsibilityTest {
+
+    private static AuthenticationProcessor getChainOfAuthProcessor() {
+
+        AuthenticationProcessor oAuthProcessor = new OAuthAuthenticationProcessor(null);
+        AuthenticationProcessor unamePasswordProcessor = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationProcessor(oAuthProcessor);
+        return unamePasswordProcessor;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenOAuthProvider_whenCheckingAuthorized_thenSuccess() {
+        AuthenticationProcessor authProcessorChain = getChainOfAuthProcessor();
+        boolean isAuthorized = authProcessorChain.isAuthorized(new OAuthTokenProvider());
+        assertTrue(isAuthorized);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUsernamePasswordProvider_whenCheckingAuthorized_thenSuccess() {
+        AuthenticationProcessor authProcessorChain = getChainOfAuthProcessor();
+        boolean isAuthorized = authProcessorChain.isAuthorized(new UsernamePasswordProvider());
+        assertTrue(isAuthorized);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenSamlAuthProvider_whenCheckingAuthorized_thenFailure() {
+        AuthenticationProcessor authProcessorChain = getChainOfAuthProcessor();
+        boolean isAuthorized = authProcessorChain.isAuthorized(new SamlAuthenticationProvider());
+        assertTrue(!isAuthorized);
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java/list/CustomListUnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.java.list;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class CustomListUnitTest {
+    @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
+    public void whenAddToSpecifiedIndex_thenExceptionIsThrown() {
+        new CustomList<>().add(0, null);
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
+    public void whenAddAllToTheEnd_thenExceptionIsThrown() {
+        Collection<Object> collection = new ArrayList<>();
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.addAll(collection);
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
+    public void whenAddAllToSpecifiedIndex_thenExceptionIsThrown() {
+        Collection<Object> collection = new ArrayList<>();
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.addAll(0, collection);
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
+    public void whenRemoveAtSpecifiedIndex_thenExceptionIsThrown() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.remove(0);
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
+    public void whenRemoveSpecifiedElement_thenExceptionIsThrown() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.remove("baeldung");
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
+    public void whenRemoveAll_thenExceptionIsThrown() {
+        Collection<Object> collection = new ArrayList<>();
+        collection.add("baeldung");
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.removeAll(collection);
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
+    public void whenRetainAll_thenExceptionIsThrown() {
+        Collection<Object> collection = new ArrayList<>();
+        collection.add("baeldung");
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.retainAll(collection);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenEmptyList_whenSize_thenZeroIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+
+        assertEquals(0, list.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenEmptyList_whenIsEmpty_thenTrueIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+
+        assertTrue(list.isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenEmptyList_whenElementIsAdded_thenGetReturnsThatElement() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        boolean succeeded = list.add("baeldung");
+        Object element = list.get(0);
+
+        assertTrue(succeeded);
+        assertEquals("baeldung", element);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenListWithAnElement_whenAnotherIsAdded_thenGetReturnsBoth() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        boolean succeeded1 = list.add("baeldung");
+        boolean succeeded2 = list.add(".com");
+        Object element1 = list.get(0);
+        Object element2 = list.get(1);
+
+        assertTrue(succeeded1);
+        assertTrue(succeeded2);
+        assertEquals("baeldung", element1);
+        assertEquals(".com", element2);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenEmptyList_whenContains_thenFalseIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+
+        assertFalse(list.contains(null));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenListWithAnElement_whenContains_thenTrueIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+
+        assertTrue(list.contains("baeldung"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenListWithAnElement_whenContainsAll_thenTrueIsReturned() {
+        Collection<Object> collection = new ArrayList<>();
+        collection.add("baeldung");
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+
+        assertTrue(list.containsAll(collection));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenList_whenContainsAll_thenEitherTrueOrFalseIsReturned() {
+        Collection<Object> collection1 = new ArrayList<>();
+        collection1.add("baeldung");
+        collection1.add(".com");
+        Collection<Object> collection2 = new ArrayList<>();
+        collection2.add("baeldung");
+
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+
+        assertFalse(list.containsAll(collection1));
+        assertTrue(list.containsAll(collection2));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenList_whenSet_thenOldElementIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        Object element = list.set(0, null);
+
+        assertEquals("baeldung", element);
+        assertNull(list.get(0));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenList_whenClear_thenAllElementsAreRemoved() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.clear();
+
+        assertTrue(list.isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenList_whenIndexOf_thenIndexZeroIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+
+        assertEquals(0, list.indexOf("baeldung"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenList_whenIndexOf_thenPositiveIndexOrMinusOneIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.add(".com");
+        list.add(".com");
+
+        assertEquals(1, list.indexOf(".com"));
+        assertEquals(-1, list.indexOf("com"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenLastIndexOf_thenIndexZeroIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+
+        assertEquals(0, list.lastIndexOf("baeldung"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenLastIndexOf_thenPositiveIndexOrMinusOneIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.add(".com");
+
+        assertEquals(1, list.lastIndexOf("baeldung"));
+        assertEquals(-1, list.indexOf("com"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenSubListZeroToOne_thenListContainingFirstElementIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        List<Object> subList = list.subList(0, 1);
+
+        assertEquals("baeldung", subList.get(0));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenSubListOneToTwo_thenListContainingSecondElementIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.add(".");
+        list.add("com");
+        List<Object> subList = list.subList(1, 2);
+
+        assertEquals(1, subList.size());
+        assertEquals(".", subList.get(0));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenListWithElements_whenToArray_thenArrayContainsThose() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        list.add(".com");
+        Object[] array = list.toArray();
+
+        assertArrayEquals(new Object[] { "baeldung", ".com" }, array);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenListWithAnElement_whenToArray_thenInputArrayIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        String[] input = new String[1];
+        String[] output = list.toArray(input);
+
+        assertArrayEquals(new String[] { "baeldung" }, input);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenToArrayIsCalledWithEmptyInputArray_thenNewArrayIsReturned() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        String[] input = {};
+        String[] output = list.toArray(input);
+
+        assertArrayEquals(new String[] { "baeldung" }, output);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenToArrayIsCalledWithLargerInput_thenOutputHasTrailingNull() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        String[] input = new String[2];
+        String[] output = list.toArray(input);
+
+        assertArrayEquals(new String[] { "baeldung", null }, output);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenListWithOneElement_whenIterator_thenThisElementIsNext() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        Iterator<Object> iterator = list.iterator();
+
+        assertTrue(iterator.hasNext());
+        assertEquals("baeldung", iterator.next());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenIteratorNextIsCalledTwice_thenTheSecondReturnsFalse() {
+        List<Object> list = new CustomList<>();
+        list.add("baeldung");
+        Iterator<Object> iterator = list.iterator();
+
+        iterator.next();
+        assertFalse(iterator.hasNext());
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/methodoverloadingoverriding/test/MethodOverloadingUnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.test;
+
+import com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.util.Multiplier;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.*;
+
+public class MethodOverloadingUnitTest {
+    
+    private static Multiplier multiplier;
+    
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void setUpMultiplierInstance() {
+        multiplier = new Multiplier();
+    }
+ 
+    @Test
+    public void givenMultiplierInstance_whenCalledMultiplyWithTwoIntegers_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(multiplier.multiply(10, 10)).isEqualTo(100);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenMultiplierInstance_whenCalledMultiplyWithTreeIntegers_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(multiplier.multiply(10, 10, 10)).isEqualTo(1000);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenMultiplierInstance_whenCalledMultiplyWithIntDouble_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(multiplier.multiply(10, 10.5)).isEqualTo(105.0);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenMultiplierInstance_whenCalledMultiplyWithDoubleDouble_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(multiplier.multiply(10.5, 10.5)).isEqualTo(110.25);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenMultiplierInstance_whenCalledMultiplyWithIntIntAndMatching_thenNoTypePromotion() {
+        assertThat(multiplier.multiply(10, 10)).isEqualTo(100);
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/methodoverloadingoverriding/test/MethodOverridingUnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.test;
+
+import com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.model.Car;
+import com.baeldung.methodoverloadingoverriding.model.Vehicle;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.*;
+
+public class MethodOverridingUnitTest {
+    
+    private static Vehicle vehicle;
+    private static Car car;
+    
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void setUpVehicleInstance() {
+        vehicle = new Vehicle();
+    }
+    
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void setUpCarInstance() {
+        car = new Car();
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenVehicleInstance_whenCalledAccelerate_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(vehicle.accelerate(100)).isEqualTo("The vehicle accelerates at : 100 MPH.");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenVehicleInstance_whenCalledRun_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(vehicle.run()).isEqualTo("The vehicle is running.");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenVehicleInstance_whenCalledStop_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(vehicle.stop()).isEqualTo("The vehicle has stopped.");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenCarInstance_whenCalledAccelerate_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(car.accelerate(80)).isEqualTo("The car accelerates at : 80 MPH.");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenCarInstance_whenCalledRun_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(car.run()).isEqualTo("The vehicle is running.");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenCarInstance_whenCalledStop_thenOneAssertion() {
+        assertThat(car.stop()).isEqualTo("The vehicle has stopped.");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenVehicleCarInstances_whenCalledAccelerateWithSameArgument_thenNotEqual() {
+        assertThat(vehicle.accelerate(100)).isNotEqualTo(car.accelerate(100));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenVehicleCarInstances_whenCalledRun_thenEqual() {
+        assertThat(vehicle.run()).isEqualTo(car.run());
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenVehicleCarInstances_whenCalledStop_thenEqual() {
+        assertThat(vehicle.stop()).isEqualTo(car.stop());
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/resourcebundle/ExampleResourceUnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.resourcebundle;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.ResourceBundle;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+public class ExampleResourceUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenGetBundleExampleResourceForLocalePlPl_thenItShouldInheritPropertiesGreetingAndLanguage() {
+        Locale plLocale = new Locale("pl", "PL");
+
+        ResourceBundle exampleBundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("com.baeldung.resourcebundle.ExampleResource", plLocale);
+
+        assertTrue(exampleBundle.keySet()
+            .containsAll(Arrays.asList("toUsdRate", "cities", "greeting", "currency", "language")));
+        assertEquals(exampleBundle.getString("greeting"), "cześć");
+        assertEquals(exampleBundle.getObject("toUsdRate"), new BigDecimal("3.401"));
+        assertArrayEquals(exampleBundle.getStringArray("cities"), new String[] { "Warsaw", "Cracow" });
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenGetBundleExampleResourceForLocaleUs_thenItShouldContainOnlyGreeting() {
+        Locale usLocale = Locale.US;
+
+        ResourceBundle exampleBundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("com.baeldung.resourcebundle.ExampleResource", usLocale);
+
+        assertFalse(exampleBundle.keySet()
+            .containsAll(Arrays.asList("toUsdRate", "cities", "currency", "language")));
+        assertTrue(exampleBundle.keySet()
+            .containsAll(Arrays.asList("greeting")));
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/resourcebundle/PropertyResourceUnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.resourcebundle;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.ResourceBundle;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class PropertyResourceUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLocaleUsAsDefualt_whenGetBundleForLocalePlPl_thenItShouldContain3ButtonsAnd1Label() {
+        Locale.setDefault(Locale.US);
+
+        ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resourcebundle.resource", new Locale("pl", "PL"));
+
+        assertTrue(bundle.keySet()
+            .containsAll(Arrays.asList("backButton", "helloLabel", "cancelButton", "continueButton", "helloLabelNoEncoding")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLocaleUsAsDefualt_whenGetBundleForLocaleFrFr_thenItShouldContainKeys1To3AndKey4() {
+        Locale.setDefault(Locale.US);
+
+        ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resourcebundle.resource", new Locale("fr", "FR"));
+
+        assertTrue(bundle.keySet()
+            .containsAll(Arrays.asList("deleteButton", "helloLabel", "cancelButton", "continueButton")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLocaleChinaAsDefualt_whenGetBundleForLocaleFrFr_thenItShouldOnlyContainKeys1To3() {
+        Locale.setDefault(Locale.CHINA);
+
+        ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resourcebundle.resource", new Locale("fr", "FR"));
+
+        assertTrue(bundle.keySet()
+            .containsAll(Arrays.asList("continueButton", "helloLabel", "cancelButton")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLocaleChinaAsDefualt_whenGetBundleForLocaleFrFrAndExampleControl_thenItShouldOnlyContainKey5() {
+        Locale.setDefault(Locale.CHINA);
+
+        ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resourcebundle.resource", new Locale("fr", "FR"), new ExampleControl());
+
+        assertTrue(bundle.keySet()
+            .containsAll(Arrays.asList("backButton", "helloLabel")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenValuesDifferentlyEncoded_whenGetBundleForLocalePlPl_thenItShouldContain3ButtonsAnd1Label() {
+        ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resourcebundle.resource", new Locale("pl", "PL"));
+
+        assertEquals(bundle.getString("helloLabel"), "cześć");
+        assertEquals(bundle.getString("helloLabelNoEncoding"), "czeÅ\u009BÄ\u0087");
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/string/PalindromeTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.string;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class PalindromeTest {
+
+    private String[] words = {
+            "Anna",
+            "Civic",
+            "Kayak",
+            "Level",
+            "Madam",
+    };
+
+    private String[] sentences = {
+            "Sore was I ere I saw Eros",
+            "Euston saw I was not Sue",
+            "Too hot to hoot",
+            "No mists or frost Simon",
+            "Stella won no wallets"
+    };
+    
+    private Palindrome palindrome = new Palindrome();
+    
+    @Test
+    public void whenWord_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String word : words)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindrome(word));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenSentence_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String sentence : sentences)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindrome(sentence));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenReverseWord_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String word : words)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeReverseTheString(word));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenReverseSentence_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String sentence : sentences)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeReverseTheString(sentence));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenStringBuilderWord_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String word : words)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeUsingStringBuilder(word));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenStringBuilderSentence_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String sentence : sentences)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeUsingStringBuilder(sentence));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenStringBufferWord_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String word : words)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeUsingStringBuffer(word));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenStringBufferSentence_shouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String sentence : sentences)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeUsingStringBuffer(sentence));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenPalindromeRecursive_wordShouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String word : words)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeRecursive(word));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenPalindromeRecursive_sentenceShouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String sentence : sentences)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeRecursive(sentence));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenPalindromeStreams_wordShouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String word : words)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeUsingIntStream(word));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenPalindromeStreams_sentenceShouldBePalindrome() {
+        for (String sentence : sentences)
+            assertTrue(palindrome.isPalindromeUsingIntStream(sentence));
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/string/StringComparisonTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.string;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+public class StringComparisonTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingComparisonOperator_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        String string1 = "using comparison operator";
+        String string2 = "using comparison operator";
+        String string3 = new String("using comparison operator");
+
+        assertThat(string1 == string2).isTrue();
+        assertThat(string1 == string3).isFalse();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingEqualsMethod_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        String string1 = "using equals method";
+        String string2 = "using equals method";
+
+        String string3 = "using EQUALS method";
+        String string4 = new String("using equals method");
+
+        assertThat(string1.equals(string2)).isTrue();
+        assertThat(string1.equals(string4)).isTrue();
+
+        assertThat(string1.equals(null)).isFalse();
+        assertThat(string1.equals(string3)).isFalse();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingEqualsIgnoreCase_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        String string1 = "using equals ignore case";
+        String string2 = "USING EQUALS IGNORE CASE";
+
+        assertThat(string1.equalsIgnoreCase(string2)).isTrue();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingCompareTo_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        String author = "author";
+        String book = "book";
+        String duplicateBook = "book";
+
+        assertThat(author.compareTo(book)).isEqualTo(-1);
+        assertThat(book.compareTo(author)).isEqualTo(1);
+        assertThat(duplicateBook.compareTo(book)).isEqualTo(0);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingCompareToIgnoreCase_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        String author = "Author";
+        String book = "book";
+        String duplicateBook = "BOOK";
+
+        assertThat(author.compareToIgnoreCase(book)).isEqualTo(-1);
+        assertThat(book.compareToIgnoreCase(author)).isEqualTo(1);
+        assertThat(duplicateBook.compareToIgnoreCase(book)).isEqualTo(0);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingObjectsEqualsMethod_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        String string1 = "using objects equals";
+        String string2 = "using objects equals";
+        String string3 = new String("using objects equals");
+
+        assertThat(Objects.equals(string1, string2)).isTrue();
+        assertThat(Objects.equals(string1, string3)).isTrue();
+
+        assertThat(Objects.equals(null, null)).isTrue();
+        assertThat(Objects.equals(null, string1)).isFalse();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingEqualsOfApacheCommons_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equals(null, null)).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equals(null, "equals method")).isFalse();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equals("equals method", "equals method")).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equals("equals method", "EQUALS METHOD")).isFalse();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingEqualsIgnoreCaseOfApacheCommons_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase(null, null)).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase(null, "equals method")).isFalse();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase("equals method", "equals method")).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase("equals method", "EQUALS METHOD")).isTrue();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingEqualsAnyOf_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAny(null, null, null)).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAny("equals any", "equals any", "any")).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAny("equals any", null, "equals any")).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAny(null, "equals", "any")).isFalse();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAny("equals any", "EQUALS ANY", "ANY")).isFalse();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingEqualsAnyIgnoreCase_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAnyIgnoreCase(null, null, null)).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAnyIgnoreCase("equals any", "equals any", "any")).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAnyIgnoreCase("equals any", null, "equals any")).isTrue();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAnyIgnoreCase(null, "equals", "any")).isFalse();
+        assertThat(StringUtils.equalsAnyIgnoreCase(
+                "equals any ignore case", "EQUALS ANY IGNORE CASE", "any")).isTrue();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingCompare_thenComparingStringsWithNulls(){
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compare(null, null)).isEqualTo(0);
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compare(null, "abc")).isEqualTo(-1);
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compare("abc", "bbc")).isEqualTo(-1);
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compare("bbc", "abc")).isEqualTo(1);
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compare("abc", "abc")).isEqualTo(0);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingCompareIgnoreCase_ThenComparingStringsWithNulls(){
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compareIgnoreCase(null, null)).isEqualTo(0);
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compareIgnoreCase(null, "abc")).isEqualTo(-1);
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compareIgnoreCase("Abc", "bbc")).isEqualTo(-1);
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compareIgnoreCase("bbc", "ABC")).isEqualTo(1);
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compareIgnoreCase("abc", "ABC")).isEqualTo(0);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingCompareWithNullIsLessOption_ThenComparingStrings(){
+
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compare(null, "abc", true)).isEqualTo(-1);
+        assertThat(StringUtils.compare(null, "abc", false)).isEqualTo(1);
+    }
+
+}

core-kotlin/README.md

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 - [Sealed Classes in Kotlin](http://www.baeldung.com/kotlin-sealed-classes)
 - [JUnit 5 for Kotlin Developers](http://www.baeldung.com/junit-5-kotlin)
 - [Extension Methods in Kotlin](http://www.baeldung.com/kotlin-extension-methods)
-
+- [Infix Functions in Kotlin](http://www.baeldung.com/kotlin-infix-functions)

core-kotlin/src/test/kotlin/com/baeldung/kotlin/InfixFunctionsTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package com.baeldung.kotlin
+
+import org.junit.Assert
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class InfixFunctionsTest {
+    @Test
+    fun testColours() {
+        val color = 0x123456
+        val red = (color and 0xff0000) shr 16
+        val green = (color and 0x00ff00) shr 8
+        val blue = (color and 0x0000ff) shr 0
+
+        Assert.assertEquals(0x12, red)
+        Assert.assertEquals(0x34, green)
+        Assert.assertEquals(0x56, blue)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun testNewAssertions() {
+        class Assertion<T>(private val target: T) {
+            infix fun isEqualTo(other: T) {
+                Assert.assertEquals(other, target)
+            }
+
+            infix fun isDifferentFrom(other: T) {
+                Assert.assertNotEquals(other, target)
+            }
+        }
+
+        val result = Assertion(5)
+
+        result isEqualTo 5
+
+        // The following two lines are expected to fail
+        // result isEqualTo 6
+        // result isDifferentFrom 5
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun testNewStringMethod() {
+        infix fun String.substringMatches(r: Regex) : List<String> {
+            return r.findAll(this)
+                    .map { it.value }
+                    .toList()
+        }
+
+        val matches = "a bc def" substringMatches ".*? ".toRegex()
+        Assert.assertEquals(listOf("a ", "bc "), matches)
+    }
+}

core-kotlin/src/test/kotlin/com/baeldung/kotlin/stdlib/RegexTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package com.baeldung.kotlin.stdlib
+
+import org.junit.Test
+import java.beans.ExceptionListener
+import java.beans.XMLEncoder
+import java.io.*
+import java.lang.Exception
+import kotlin.test.*
+import kotlin.text.RegexOption.*
+
+class RegexTest {
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenRegexIsInstantiated_thenIsEqualToToRegexMethod() {
+        val pattern = """a([bc]+)d?\\"""
+
+        assertEquals(Regex.fromLiteral(pattern).pattern, pattern)
+        assertEquals(pattern, Regex(pattern).pattern)
+        assertEquals(pattern, pattern.toRegex().pattern)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenRegexMatches_thenResultIsTrue() {
+        val regex = """a([bc]+)d?""".toRegex()
+
+        assertTrue(regex.containsMatchIn("xabcdy"))
+        assertTrue(regex.matches("abcd"))
+        assertFalse(regex matches "xabcdy")
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun givenCompletelyMatchingRegex_whenMatchResult_thenDestructuring() {
+        val regex = """a([bc]+)d?""".toRegex()
+
+        assertNull(regex.matchEntire("xabcdy"))
+
+        val matchResult = regex.matchEntire("abbccbbd")
+
+        assertNotNull(matchResult)
+        assertEquals(matchResult!!.value, matchResult.groupValues[0])
+        assertEquals(matchResult.destructured.toList(), matchResult.groupValues.drop(1))
+        assertEquals("bbccbb", matchResult.destructured.component1())
+        assertNull(matchResult.next())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun givenPartiallyMatchingRegex_whenMatchResult_thenGroups() {
+        val regex = """a([bc]+)d?""".toRegex()
+        var matchResult = regex.find("abcb abbd")
+
+        assertNotNull(matchResult)
+        assertEquals(matchResult!!.value, matchResult.groupValues[0])
+        assertEquals("abcb", matchResult.value)
+        assertEquals(IntRange(0, 3), matchResult.range)
+        assertEquals(listOf("abcb", "bcb"), matchResult.groupValues)
+        assertEquals(matchResult.destructured.toList(), matchResult.groupValues.drop(1))
+
+        matchResult = matchResult.next()
+
+        assertNotNull(matchResult)
+        assertEquals("abbd", matchResult!!.value)
+        assertEquals("bb", matchResult.groupValues[1])
+
+        matchResult = matchResult.next()
+
+        assertNull(matchResult)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun givenPartiallyMatchingRegex_whenMatchResult_thenDestructuring() {
+        val regex = """([\w\s]+) is (\d+) years old""".toRegex()
+        val matchResult = regex.find("Mickey Mouse is 95 years old")
+        val (name, age) = matchResult!!.destructured
+
+        assertEquals("Mickey Mouse", name)
+        assertEquals("95", age)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun givenNonMatchingRegex_whenFindCalled_thenNull() {
+        val regex = """a([bc]+)d?""".toRegex()
+        val matchResult = regex.find("foo")
+
+        assertNull(matchResult)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun givenNonMatchingRegex_whenFindAllCalled_thenEmptySet() {
+        val regex = """a([bc]+)d?""".toRegex()
+        val matchResults = regex.findAll("foo")
+
+        assertNotNull(matchResults)
+        assertTrue(matchResults.none())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenReplace_thenReplacement() {
+        val regex = """(red|green|blue)""".toRegex()
+        val beautiful = "Roses are red, Violets are blue"
+        val grim = regex.replace(beautiful, "dark")
+        val shiny = regex.replaceFirst(beautiful, "rainbow")
+
+        assertEquals("Roses are dark, Violets are dark", grim)
+        assertEquals("Roses are rainbow, Violets are blue", shiny)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenComplexReplace_thenReplacement() {
+        val regex = """(red|green|blue)""".toRegex()
+        val beautiful = "Roses are red, Violets are blue"
+        val reallyBeautiful = regex.replace(beautiful) {
+            matchResult ->  matchResult.value.toUpperCase() + "!"
+        }
+
+        assertEquals("Roses are RED!, Violets are BLUE!", reallyBeautiful)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun whenSplit_thenList() {
+        val regex = """\W+""".toRegex()
+        val beautiful = "Roses are red, Violets are blue"
+
+        assertEquals(listOf("Roses", "are", "red", "Violets", "are", "blue"), regex.split(beautiful))
+        assertEquals(listOf("Roses", "are", "red", "Violets are blue"), regex.split(beautiful, 4))
+        assertEquals(regex.toPattern().split(beautiful).asList(), regex.split(beautiful))
+    }
+
+}

jackson/pom.xml

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <!-- marshalling -->
-        <jackson.version>2.9.2</jackson.version>
+        <jackson.version>2.9.4</jackson.version>
 
         <!-- util -->
         <guava.version>19.0</guava.version>

javax-servlets/src/main/java/com/baeldung/controller/StudentServlet.java

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.baeldung.controller;
+
+import com.baeldung.service.StudentService;
+
+import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
+import javax.servlet.ServletException;
+import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+@WebServlet(name = "StudentServlet", urlPatterns = "/student-record")
+public class StudentServlet extends HttpServlet {
+
+    private final StudentService studentService = new StudentService();
+
+    private void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
+        String studentID = request.getParameter("id");
+        if (studentID != null) {
+            int id = Integer.parseInt(studentID);
+            studentService.getStudent(id)
+              .ifPresent(s -> request.setAttribute("studentRecord", s));
+        }
+
+        RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/student-record.jsp");
+        dispatcher.forward(request, response);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
+        processRequest(request, response);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
+        processRequest(request, response);
+    }
+}

javax-servlets/src/main/java/com/baeldung/model/Student.java

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.baeldung.model;
+
+public class Student {
+
+    private int id;
+    private String firstName;
+    private String lastName;
+
+    public Student(int id, String firstName, String lastName) {
+        super();
+        this.id = id;
+        this.firstName = firstName;
+        this.lastName = lastName;
+    }
+
+    public int getId() {
+        return id;
+    }
+
+    public void setId(int id) {
+        this.id = id;
+    }
+
+    public String getFirstName() {
+        return firstName;
+    }
+
+    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
+        this.firstName = firstName;
+    }
+
+    public String getLastName() {
+        return lastName;
+    }
+
+    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
+        this.lastName = lastName;
+    }
+}

javax-servlets/src/main/java/com/baeldung/service/StudentService.java

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package com.baeldung.service;
+
+import com.baeldung.model.Student;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+public class StudentService {
+
+    public Optional<Student> getStudent(int id) {
+        switch (id) {
+            case 1:
+                return Optional.of(new Student(1, "John", "Doe"));
+            case 2:
+                return Optional.of(new Student(2, "Jane", "Goodall"));
+            case 3:
+                return Optional.of(new Student(3, "Max", "Born"));
+            default:
+                return Optional.empty();
+        }
+    }
+}

javax-servlets/src/main/java/com/baeldung/servlets/FormServlet.java

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package com.baeldung.servlets;
 
 import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
 import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ public class FormServlet extends HttpServlet {
 
     @Override
     protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
-            throws ServletException, IOException {
+      throws IOException {
 
         String height = request.getParameter("height");
         String weight = request.getParameter("weight");
@@ -25,23 +24,20 @@ public class FormServlet extends HttpServlet {
             response.setHeader("Test", "Success");
             response.setHeader("BMI", String.valueOf(bmi));
 
-            RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("index.jsp");
+            RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp");
             dispatcher.forward(request, response);
         } catch (Exception e) {
-
             response.sendRedirect("index.jsp");
         }
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
-            throws ServletException, IOException {
+    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
 
         // do something else here
     }
 
     private Double calculateBMI(Double weight, Double height) {
-
         return weight / (height * height);
     }
 }

javax-servlets/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/student-record.jsp

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
+    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
+
+<%@ page import="com.baeldung.model.Student"%>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+<title>Student Record</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+    <%
+        if (request.getAttribute("studentRecord") != null) {
+            Student student = (Student) request.getAttribute("studentRecord");
+    %>
+
+    <h1>Student Record</h1>
+    <div>
+        ID:
+        <%=student.getId()%></div>
+    <div>
+        First Name:
+        <%=student.getFirstName()%></div>
+    <div>
+        Last Name:
+        <%=student.getLastName()%></div>
+
+    <%
+        } else {
+    %>
+    <h1>No student record found.</h1>
+    <%
+        }
+    %>
+</body>
+</html>

javaxval/pom.xml

@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
     <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
     <properties>
-        <validation-api.version>2.0.0.Final</validation-api.version>
-        <hibernate-validator.version>6.0.2.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
+        <validation-api.version>2.0.1.Final</validation-api.version>
+        <hibernate-validator.version>6.0.7.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
         <javax.el-api.version>3.0.0</javax.el-api.version>
         <javax.el.version>2.2.6</javax.el.version>
+        <org.springframework.version>5.0.2.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
     </properties>
 
 
@@ -21,12 +22,6 @@
 
     <dependencies>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
-            <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
-            <version>${validation-api.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
@@ -50,6 +45,16 @@
             <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
             <version>${javax.el.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
 

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/MethodValidationConfig.java

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation;
+
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.Customer;
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.Reservation;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope;
+import org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.MethodValidationPostProcessor;
+
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+
+@Configuration
+@ComponentScan({ "org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model" })
+public class MethodValidationConfig {
+
+    @Bean
+    public MethodValidationPostProcessor methodValidationPostProcessor() {
+        return new MethodValidationPostProcessor();
+    }
+
+    @Bean("customer")
+    @Scope(BeanDefinition.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
+    public Customer customer(String firstName, String lastName) {
+
+        Customer customer = new Customer(firstName, lastName);
+        return customer;
+    }
+
+    @Bean("reservation")
+    @Scope(BeanDefinition.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
+    public Reservation reservation(LocalDate begin, LocalDate end, Customer customer, int room) {
+
+        Reservation reservation = new Reservation(begin, end, customer, room);
+        return reservation;
+    }
+}

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/constraints/ConsistentDateParameterValidator.java

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints;
+
+import javax.validation.ConstraintValidator;
+import javax.validation.ConstraintValidatorContext;
+import javax.validation.constraintvalidation.SupportedValidationTarget;
+import javax.validation.constraintvalidation.ValidationTarget;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+
+@SupportedValidationTarget(ValidationTarget.PARAMETERS)
+public class ConsistentDateParameterValidator implements ConstraintValidator<ConsistentDateParameters, Object[]> {
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValid(Object[] value, ConstraintValidatorContext context) {
+
+        if (value[0] == null || value[1] == null) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (!(value[0] instanceof LocalDate) || !(value[1] instanceof LocalDate)) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal method signature, expected two parameters of type LocalDate.");
+        }
+
+        return ((LocalDate) value[0]).isAfter(LocalDate.now()) && ((LocalDate) value[0]).isBefore((LocalDate) value[1]);
+    }
+}

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/constraints/ConsistentDateParameters.java

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints;
+
+import javax.validation.Constraint;
+import javax.validation.Payload;
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.*;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
+
+@Constraint(validatedBy = ConsistentDateParameterValidator.class)
+@Target({ METHOD, CONSTRUCTOR })
+@Retention(RUNTIME)
+@Documented
+public @interface ConsistentDateParameters {
+
+    String message() default "End date must be after begin date and both must be in the future";
+
+    Class<?>[] groups() default {};
+
+    Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};
+}

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/constraints/ValidReservation.java

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints;
+
+import javax.validation.Constraint;
+import javax.validation.Payload;
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR;
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
+
+@Constraint(validatedBy = ValidReservationValidator.class)
+@Target({ METHOD, CONSTRUCTOR })
+@Retention(RUNTIME)
+@Documented
+public @interface ValidReservation {
+
+    String message() default "End date must be after begin date and both must be in the future, room number must be bigger than 0";
+
+    Class<?>[] groups() default {};
+
+    Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};
+}

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/constraints/ValidReservationValidator.java

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints;
+
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.Reservation;
+
+import javax.validation.ConstraintValidator;
+import javax.validation.ConstraintValidatorContext;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+
+public class ValidReservationValidator implements ConstraintValidator<ValidReservation, Reservation> {
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValid(Reservation reservation, ConstraintValidatorContext context) {
+
+        if (reservation == null) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (!(reservation instanceof Reservation)) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal method signature, expected parameter of type Reservation.");
+        }
+
+        if (reservation.getBegin() == null || reservation.getEnd() == null || reservation.getCustomer() == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return (reservation.getBegin()
+            .isAfter(LocalDate.now())
+            && reservation.getBegin()
+                .isBefore(reservation.getEnd())
+            && reservation.getRoom() > 0);
+    }
+}

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/model/Customer.java

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model;
+
+import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated;
+
+import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
+import javax.validation.constraints.Size;
+
+@Validated
+public class Customer {
+
+    @Size(min = 5, max = 200)
+    private String firstName;
+
+    @Size(min = 5, max = 200)
+    private String lastName;
+
+    public Customer(@Size(min = 5, max = 200) @NotNull String firstName, @Size(min = 5, max = 200) @NotNull String lastName) {
+        this.firstName = firstName;
+        this.lastName = lastName;
+    }
+
+    public Customer() {
+
+    }
+
+    public String getFirstName() {
+        return firstName;
+    }
+
+    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
+        this.firstName = firstName;
+    }
+
+    public String getLastName() {
+        return lastName;
+    }
+
+    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
+        this.lastName = lastName;
+    }
+}

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/model/Reservation.java

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model;
+
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints.ConsistentDateParameters;
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints.ValidReservation;
+import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated;
+
+import javax.validation.Valid;
+import javax.validation.constraints.Positive;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+
+@Validated
+public class Reservation {
+
+    private LocalDate begin;
+
+    private LocalDate end;
+
+    @Valid
+    private Customer customer;
+
+    @Positive
+    private int room;
+
+    @ConsistentDateParameters
+    @ValidReservation
+    public Reservation(LocalDate begin, LocalDate end, Customer customer, int room) {
+        this.begin = begin;
+        this.end = end;
+        this.customer = customer;
+        this.room = room;
+    }
+
+    public LocalDate getBegin() {
+        return begin;
+    }
+
+    public void setBegin(LocalDate begin) {
+        this.begin = begin;
+    }
+
+    public LocalDate getEnd() {
+        return end;
+    }
+
+    public void setEnd(LocalDate end) {
+        this.end = end;
+    }
+
+    public Customer getCustomer() {
+        return customer;
+    }
+
+    public void setCustomer(Customer customer) {
+        this.customer = customer;
+    }
+
+    public int getRoom() {
+        return room;
+    }
+
+    public void setRoom(int room) {
+        this.room = room;
+    }
+}

javaxval/src/main/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/model/ReservationManagement.java

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model;
+
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints.ConsistentDateParameters;
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.constraints.ValidReservation;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated;
+
+import javax.validation.Valid;
+import javax.validation.constraints.*;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.util.List;
+
+@Controller
+@Validated
+public class ReservationManagement {
+
+    @Autowired
+    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
+
+    @ConsistentDateParameters
+    public void createReservation(LocalDate begin, LocalDate end, @NotNull Customer customer) {
+
+        // ...
+    }
+
+    public void createReservation(@NotNull @Future LocalDate begin, @Min(1) int duration, @NotNull Customer customer) {
+
+        // ...
+    }
+
+    public void createReservation(@Valid Reservation reservation) {
+
+        // ...
+    }
+
+    @NotNull
+    @Size(min = 1)
+    public List<@NotNull Customer> getAllCustomers() {
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Valid
+    public Reservation getReservationById(int id) {
+
+        return null;
+    }
+}

javaxval/src/test/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/ContainerValidationIntegrationTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation;
+
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.Customer;
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.Reservation;
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.ReservationManagement;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.springframework.test.context.support.AnnotationConfigContextLoader;
+
+import javax.validation.ConstraintViolationException;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.util.List;
+
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = { MethodValidationConfig.class }, loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class)
+public class ContainerValidationIntegrationTest {
+
+    @Autowired
+    ReservationManagement reservationManagement;
+
+    @Rule
+    public final ExpectedException exception = ExpectedException.none();
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidMethodParameters_thenConstraintViolationException() {
+
+        exception.expect(ConstraintViolationException.class);
+        reservationManagement.createReservation(LocalDate.now(), 0, null);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithValidMethodParameters_thenNoException() {
+
+        reservationManagement.createReservation(LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1), 1, new Customer("William", "Smith"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCrossParameterValidationWithInvalidParameters_thenConstraintViolationException() {
+
+        exception.expect(ConstraintViolationException.class);
+        reservationManagement.createReservation(LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now(), null);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCrossParameterValidationWithValidParameters_thenNoException() {
+
+        reservationManagement.createReservation(LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+            LocalDate.now()
+                .plusDays(2),
+            new Customer("William", "Smith"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidReturnValue_thenConstraintViolationException() {
+
+        exception.expect(ConstraintViolationException.class);
+        List<Customer> list = reservationManagement.getAllCustomers();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidCascadedValue_thenConstraintViolationException() {
+
+        Customer customer = new Customer();
+        customer.setFirstName("John");
+        customer.setLastName("Doe");
+        Reservation reservation = new Reservation(LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+            LocalDate.now()
+                .plusDays(2),
+            customer, 1);
+
+        exception.expect(ConstraintViolationException.class);
+        reservationManagement.createReservation(reservation);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithValidCascadedValue_thenCNoException() {
+
+        Customer customer = new Customer();
+        customer.setFirstName("William");
+        customer.setLastName("Smith");
+        Reservation reservation = new Reservation(LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+            LocalDate.now()
+                .plusDays(2),
+            customer, 1);
+
+        reservationManagement.createReservation(reservation);
+    }
+}

javaxval/src/test/java/org/baeldung/javaxval/methodvalidation/ValidationIntegrationTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+package org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation;
+
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.Customer;
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.Reservation;
+import org.baeldung.javaxval.methodvalidation.model.ReservationManagement;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import javax.validation.ConstraintViolation;
+import javax.validation.Validation;
+import javax.validation.ValidatorFactory;
+import javax.validation.executable.ExecutableValidator;
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+public class ValidationIntegrationTest {
+
+    private ExecutableValidator executableValidator;
+
+    @Before
+    public void getExecutableValidator() {
+
+        ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();
+        this.executableValidator = factory.getValidator()
+            .forExecutables();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidMethodParameters_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("createReservation", LocalDate.class, int.class, Customer.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { LocalDate.now(), 0, null };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateParameters(object, method, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(3, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithValidMethodParameters_thenZeroVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("createReservation", LocalDate.class, int.class, Customer.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1), 1, new Customer("John", "Doe") };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateParameters(object, method, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(0, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCrossParameterValidationWithInvalidParameters_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("createReservation", LocalDate.class, LocalDate.class, Customer.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now(), new Customer("John", "Doe") };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateParameters(object, method, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(1, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCrossParameterValidationWithValidParameters_thenZeroVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("createReservation", LocalDate.class, LocalDate.class, Customer.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+                LocalDate.now()
+                    .plusDays(2),
+                new Customer("John", "Doe") };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateParameters(object, method, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(0, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidConstructorParameters_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        Constructor<Customer> constructor = Customer.class.getConstructor(String.class, String.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { "John", "Doe" };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<Customer>> violations = executableValidator.validateConstructorParameters(constructor, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(2, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithValidConstructorParameters_thenZeroVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        Constructor<Customer> constructor = Customer.class.getConstructor(String.class, String.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { "William", "Smith" };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<Customer>> violations = executableValidator.validateConstructorParameters(constructor, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(0, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCrossParameterValidationWithInvalidConstructorParameters_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        Constructor<Reservation> constructor = Reservation.class.getConstructor(LocalDate.class, LocalDate.class, Customer.class, int.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now(), new Customer("William", "Smith"), 1 };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<Reservation>> violations = executableValidator.validateConstructorParameters(constructor, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(1, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCrossParameterValidationWithValidConstructorParameters_thenZeroVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        Constructor<Reservation> constructor = Reservation.class.getConstructor(LocalDate.class, LocalDate.class, Customer.class, int.class);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+                LocalDate.now()
+                    .plusDays(2),
+                new Customer("William", "Smith"), 1 };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<Reservation>> violations = executableValidator.validateConstructorParameters(constructor, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(0, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidReturnValue_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("getAllCustomers");
+        Object returnValue = Collections.<Customer> emptyList();
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateReturnValue(object, method, returnValue);
+
+        assertEquals(1, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithValidReturnValue_thenZeroVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("getAllCustomers");
+        Object returnValue = Collections.singletonList(new Customer("William", "Smith"));
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateReturnValue(object, method, returnValue);
+
+        assertEquals(0, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidConstructorReturnValue_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        Constructor<Reservation> constructor = Reservation.class.getConstructor(LocalDate.class, LocalDate.class, Customer.class, int.class);
+        Reservation createdObject = new Reservation(LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now(), new Customer("William", "Smith"), 0);
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<Reservation>> violations = executableValidator.validateConstructorReturnValue(constructor, createdObject);
+
+        assertEquals(1, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithValidConstructorReturnValue_thenZeroVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        Constructor<Reservation> constructor = Reservation.class.getConstructor(LocalDate.class, LocalDate.class, Customer.class, int.class);
+        Reservation createdObject = new Reservation(LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+            LocalDate.now()
+                .plusDays(2),
+            new Customer("William", "Smith"), 1);
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<Reservation>> violations = executableValidator.validateConstructorReturnValue(constructor, createdObject);
+
+        assertEquals(0, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithInvalidCascadedValue_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("createReservation", Reservation.class);
+        Customer customer = new Customer();
+        customer.setFirstName("John");
+        customer.setLastName("Doe");
+        Reservation reservation = new Reservation(LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+            LocalDate.now()
+                .plusDays(2),
+            customer, 1);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { reservation };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateParameters(object, method, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(2, violations.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenValidationWithValidCascadedValue_thenCorrectNumberOfVoilations() throws NoSuchMethodException {
+
+        ReservationManagement object = new ReservationManagement();
+        Method method = ReservationManagement.class.getMethod("createReservation", Reservation.class);
+        Customer customer = new Customer();
+        customer.setFirstName("William");
+        customer.setLastName("Smith");
+        Reservation reservation = new Reservation(LocalDate.now()
+            .plusDays(1),
+            LocalDate.now()
+                .plusDays(2),
+            customer, 1);
+        Object[] parameterValues = { reservation };
+        Set<ConstraintViolation<ReservationManagement>> violations = executableValidator.validateParameters(object, method, parameterValues);
+
+        assertEquals(0, violations.size());
+    }
+
+}

jgroups/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jgroups/JGroupsMessenger.java

@@ -100,21 +100,16 @@ public class JGroupsMessenger extends ReceiverAdapter {
             System.out.println("Received initial view:");
             newView.forEach(System.out::println);
         } else {
-
             // Compare to last view
             System.out.println("Received new view.");
 
             List<Address> newMembers = View.newMembers(lastView, newView);
-            if (newMembers.size() > 0) {
-                System.out.println("New members: ");
-                newMembers.forEach(System.out::println);
-            }
+            System.out.println("New members: ");
+            newMembers.forEach(System.out::println);
 
             List<Address> exMembers = View.leftMembers(lastView, newView);
-            if (exMembers.size() > 0) {
-                System.out.println("Exited members:");
-                exMembers.forEach(System.out::println);
-            }
+            System.out.println("Exited members:");
+            exMembers.forEach(System.out::println);
         }
         lastView = newView;
     }
@@ -122,7 +117,7 @@ public class JGroupsMessenger extends ReceiverAdapter {
     /**
      * Loop on console input until we see 'x' to exit
      */
-    private void processInput() {
+    private void processInput() throws Exception {
 
         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
         while (running) {
@@ -138,13 +133,8 @@ public class JGroupsMessenger extends ReceiverAdapter {
                     running = false;
                     continue;
                 } else if (!destinationName.isEmpty()) {
-                    Optional<Address> optDestination = getAddress(destinationName);
-                    if (optDestination.isPresent()) {
-                        destination = optDestination.get();
-                    } else {
-                        System.out.println("Destination not found, try again.");
-                        continue;
-                    }
+                    destination = getAddress(destinationName)
+                      . orElseThrow(() -> new Exception("Destination not found"));
                 }
 
                 // Accept a string to send

jsonld/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+target/
+!.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
+
+### STS ###
+.apt_generated
+.classpath
+.factorypath
+.project
+.settings
+.springBeans
+
+### IntelliJ IDEA ###
+.idea
+*.iws
+*.iml
+*.ipr
+
+### NetBeans ###
+nbproject/private/
+build/
+nbbuild/
+dist/
+nbdist/
+.nb-gradle/

jsonld/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+distributionUrl=https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.3.9/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.zip