Simon Roberts

Simon Roberts joined Sun Microsystems in time to teach Sun’s first Java classes in the UK. He created the Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Java Developer exams. He wrote several Java certification guides and is currently a freelance educator who publishes recorded and live video training through Pearson InformIT (available direct and through the O’Reilly Safari Books Online service). He remains involved with Oracle’s Java certification projects.

Recent Blogs

Quiz yourself: Serializing a primitive with ObjectOutputStream

Primitives? Objects? What should you do?

Quiz yourself: Deserializing objects that have a nonserializable ...

What’s correct and what’s not correct about the Java deserialization process?

Quiz yourself: Deserializing objects with readObject

You should know how the readObject method works—and when it won’t compile.

Quiz yourself: Collectors, comparators, and type inferencing in Java

You need to find the most-frequently used word in a stream. Where do you start?

Quiz yourself: Try-with-resources and PreparedStatement database ...

The best uses—and some limitations—of try-with-resources

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