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It's a bad thing because it would prevent new players from entering that market. How could anyone successfully create a new competing product once the majority of the market uses t…

No, it's essentially a way to automatically map between manually written SQL and custom object types; you can use MyBatis with annotations only; no XML required. The advantage is t…

I would say in most cases: no. Due to backwards compatibility concerns, no existing Java APIs that may currently return null can ever be changed to return Optionals instead, so nul…

I would agree that greatness in part depends on a certain innate talent, and most of us, no matter how hard we may try, will never get there. I think the difference between his cat…

I think you're confusing unit tests with integration tests. In integration tests you should indeed run as close to real data as possible and execute your system's entire stack, inc…