I am new to Scala and I could not really find a lot about the type keyword. I am trying to understand what the following expression may mean: ...

... In simple words, applicationContext.xml defines the beans that are shared among all the servlets. If your application have more than one servlet, then defining the common resources in the applicationContext.xml would make more sense....

... @BrillPappin I almost entirely agree and have re-worded to emphasize the drawbacks of AsyncTask. (I still think there are a very small number of cases where - if you really know what you are doing - it might be OK to use AsyncTask, but the accepted answer doesn't point out ...

... same for ADT. But I had a surprise when trying to compile and run a Hello Word Android app. The compatibility was set to Java 6 with no way to force it to Java 7: I tried with a non-Android project, a regular Java one, and I had the explanation. The compatibility level seems to be limited by E...

...4.607s The cmd/process has utilized this much amount of cpu time. In other words, on machine with single core CPU, the real and user will be nearly equal, so the same command will take ~76 mins to complete. sys sys 2m29.432s This is the time taken by the kernel to execute all the basic/system level ...

... I see. In other words, sorting by pairs is clearer and is thus preferable, unless you care about performance. I'd imagine that two stable sorts are somewhat faster than one sort by pairs, though the difference may be negligible - ? ...

..., but I'm wondering just how accurate that is. I haven't seen any official word that Remoting is being deprecated, and it seems to me there are certainly scenarios where Remoting makes more sense than WCF. None of the Remoting-related objects or methods have been deprecated, even in version 4.0 of t...

...use an instance of Animal is effectively an 'invalid' -by lack of a better word- animal (even if all its methods provide a base implementation). With Object, that is simply not the case. There is no overwhelming case to make it abstract in the first place. ...

...this to google to add to their documentation. I am saving your answer to a Word document to keep! – likejudo Sep 11 '16 at 1:53 1 ...

...g: I think it's more than just state, because it's mutable state. In other words, if you execute a closure which changes a local variable (while still within the method) that local variable changes too. "Environment" seems to convey this better to me, but it's woolly. – Jon Ske...