StringBuffer is the thread safe utility class to perform several operations on Strings. It contains append() and insert() methods that are widely used to perform operation on Strings in a multi-thread environment. If you will check the source code, most of its functions are synchronized for thread safety.

Since most of the String operations, for example concatenation happens in a single thread environment, Java 1.5 introduced another utility class StringBuilder to perform similar operations but doesn’t provide thread safety. If you will look into its source code, all the methods are unsynchronized.

Immutable objects are instances whose state doesn’t change after it has been initialized. For example, String is an immutable class and once instantiated its value never changes.

Immutable objects are good for caching purpose because you don’t need to worry about the value changes. Other benefit of immutable class is that it is inherently thread-safe, so you don’t need to worry about thread safety in case of multi-threaded environment.

Here I am providing a way to create immutable class via an example for better understanding.

If you are a Java Developer, I am sure that you must be aware of ConcurrentModificationException that comes when you want to modify the Collection object while using iterator to go through with all its element.

Java 1.5 has introduced java.util.concurrent package with Collection classes implementations that allow you to modify your collection object at runtime.

ConcurrentHashMap is the class that is similar to HashMap but works fine when you try to modify your map at runtime.

Queue is a special type of collection designed to hold elements before processing and order elements in a FIFO (first-in-first-out) manner.

Here I am trying to implement Queue with Object Array and provides basic functionalities like enqueue(obj), dequeue() and isEmpty().

ArrayList is similar to Object Array but provides the feature of dynamic space allocation when the number of objects in the list grows. In Object Array we need to provide the size at the time of initialization but that is not required for ArrayList. Actually when you initialize ArrayList, it automatically assigns its capacity to 10.

Here I am trying to implement ArrayList with Object Array and provide basic functions i.e get(index), add(object) and remove(index).

JiBX is a very powerful framework for converting XML data to java object and vice versa. It is very useful in applications integration where XML is the format for data transfer, for example, Web Services and Legacy Systems Integration based on Message Oriented Model (MOM).

Converting Java Object in to XML is called Marshalling and creating java object from XML is called un-marshalling. There are many frameworks available for XML transformation such as JAXB and XMLBeans but JiBX differs in the approach for XML binding and transformation process. JiBX performs these tasks via utility classes generated at compile time via ant scripts. This approach reduces the processing time by moving away from the traditional two-step process with other parsers to a single step.

Benchmarks done on various XML binding tools have shown JiBX as the fastest and the most memory efficient parsing framework till date.

Here I am providing a sample application for XML transformation using JiBX parser.