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Preventing Memory Fragmentation

Applications that are free from memory leaks but perform dynamic memory allocation and deallocation frequently tend to show gradual performance degradation if they are kept running for long periods. Finally,

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Default Arguments in a Template Instantiation

Templates can have default type parameters. The compiler uses these default types when you don’t provide them explicitly in a template instantiation. For example: template < class T1=char, class T2=char

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Avoid Hardcoded Literal Strings

Hardcoded literal strings can become a serious maintenance problem. Suppose you have numerous message boxes in your application that display a hardcoded text message and you want to change that

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Random Integer Generation

Question: How do I write a Java program that generates random numbers withinlimits, such as 1 to 100, or 1 to 1000? Answer: The java.util package includes a Random class

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Setting Default Values

Question: How do I set a default for a date field having sysdate, current_date or date as the value? Answer: To use the current date as a default value in

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Invoking C++ Code (or DLL) via Trigger

Question: Is it possible to have a trigger invoke code in a running application (either via a register-notify type of thing or by calling entry points of a DLL or…)?

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Vectors vs. Hashtables

Question: Is there a significant speed advantage to using Hashtables over Vectors? Answer: The answer depends on how you are using those containers classes. Ifyou are only using them for

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Package Protected Constructor

Question: I need to extend class A which resides in a different package, butclass A has only one constructor which is package protected. I get a compile error in class