Kikkoman

Interesting things I have learned about java recently.

Recursive Generics
Initializing your member variables to null is bad.   Because if you then add in lazy initialization and contructor chaining, you could lazy init twice.
String.intern()  been there since at least 1.2.

Being detached with hope is opposite from being invested with expectations.  -Tseric

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/index.html