How do I convert varargs to an array?

Varargs can be seen as a simplification of array when we need to pass a multiple value as a method parameter. Varargs itself is an array that automatically created, for these reason you will be enabled to do things you can do with array to varargs.

In the example below you can see the messages parameter can be assigned to the String array variables, we can call the length method to the messages parameter as we do with the array. So actually you don’t need to convert varargs to array because varargs is array.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class VarargsToArray {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        printMessage("Hello ", "there", ", ", "how ", "are ", "you", "?");
    }

    public static void printMessage(String... messages) {
        String[] copiedMessage = messages;
        for (int i = 0; i < messages.length; i++) {
            System.out.print(copiedMessage[i]);
        }
    }
}

How do I remove trailing white space from a string?

The trim() method of a String class removes both leading and trailing white space from a string. In this example we use a regular expression to remove only the trailing white spaces from a string.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class TrailingSpace {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "     tattarrattat     ";
        System.out.println("Original      = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());

        // Using a regular expression to remove only the trailing white space in
        // a string
        text = text.replaceAll("\\s+$", "");
        System.out.println("Result        = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());
    }
}
Original      =      tattarrattat     
text.length() = 22
Result        =      tattarrattat
text.length() = 17

How do I remove leading white space from a string?

The trim() method of a String class removes both leading and trailing white space from a string. In this example we use a regular expression to remove only the leading white spaces from a string.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class LeadingSpace {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "     tattarrattat     ";
        System.out.println("Original      = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());

        // Using regular expression to remove only the leading white
        // space in string
        text = text.replaceAll("^\\s+", "");
        System.out.println("Result        = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());
    }
}
Original      =      tattarrattat     
text.length() = 22
Result        = tattarrattat     
text.length() = 17

How do I create a queue using LinkedList class?

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.Queue;

public class QueueDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create an instance of a queue, ere we use the LinkedList class which
        // implements the Queue interface. Add some elements to the queue using
        // the offer method.
        Queue<String> queue = new LinkedList<>();
        queue.offer("First visitor");
        queue.offer("Second visitor");
        queue.offer("Third visitor");
        queue.offer("Fourth visitor");

        // Let see the size of our queue
        System.out.println("Size: " + queue.size());

        // The peek and element method read the head of the queue without removing
        // the element. The difference is, if the queue is empty peek method
        // return null while element method throws a NoSuchElementException
        // exception.
        System.out.println("Queue head using peek   : " + queue.peek());
        System.out.println("Queue head using element: " + queue.element());

        // The poll method retrieves and then removes the head of the queue.
        // On the next code will process all the element of the queue. When no
        // item in the queue the poll method will return null.
        Object data;
        while ((data = queue.poll()) != null) {
            System.out.println(data);
        }
    }
}

The code snippet above print the following output:

Size: 4
Queue head using peek   : First visitor
Queue head using element: First visitor
First visitor
Second visitor
Third visitor
Fourth visitor

How do I handle a window closing event in Swing?

Here you will see how to handle the window closing event of a JFrame. What you need to do is to implement a java.awt.event.WindowListener interface and call the frame addWindowListener() method to add the listener to the frame instance. To handle the closing event implements the windowClosing() method of the interface.

Instead of implementing the java.awt.event.WindowListener interface which require us to implement the entire methods defined in the interface, we can create an instance of WindowAdapter object and override only the method we need, which is the windowsClosing() method. Let’s see the code snippet below.

package org.kodejava.swing;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.awt.Button;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;

public class WindowClosingDemo extends JFrame {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        WindowClosingDemo frame = new WindowClosingDemo();
        frame.setSize(new Dimension(500, 500));
        frame.add(new Button("Hello World"));

        // Add window listener by implementing WindowAdapter class to
        // the frame instance. To handle the close event we just need
        // to implement the windowClosing() method.
        frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
                System.out.println("WindowClosingDemo.windowClosing");
                System.exit(0);
            }
        });

        // Show the frame
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}