Java Practices http://www.javapractices.com/ Java techniques, examples, and practices. en Hirondelle Systems webmaster@javapractices.com (John O'Hanley) webmaster@javapractices.com (John O'Hanley) Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT Consider JGoodies Forms for layouts http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=236 New topic. In practice, the layouts provided by the JDK are often inadequate. In particular, GridBagLayout too hard to use. The JGoodies Forms tool is suggested as an alternative. Beware of unknown root causes http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=235 New topic. Points out that unknown root causes in exceptions can lead to NoClassDefFoundError. Always maintain HTTP sessions http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=109 Updated. Changed to reflect the 'Beware of URL rewriting' topic. Passwords never in clear text http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=216 Updated. The idea of a 'salt' value has been added. Overridable methods need special care http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=89 Updated. The @Override annotation should be included when you are overriding a method. Coding conventions http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=115 Updated. Now encourages to treat all such conventions as guidelines, not as immutable laws. Initializing fields to 0-false-null is redundant http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=14 Updated. Clarified the meaning. Code generation topics deleted http://www.javapractices.com/ Three of the four code generation topics have been deleted, since they were of low quality.