Java Generics Capture Conversion

Introduction: Earlier in my article Java Compile Time Method Binding I had promised to explain how type arguments are inferred during invocation of a generic method. However, that would not be of that use without learning how capture conversion works first. So what is capture conversion. Capture conversion is the type conversion when a reference of a generic type is created by passing the type parameters. Its not really that complicated. But it still does require some attention. Note that capture conversion is only required for compile time type checking, nothing is there in the compiled code and nothing happens at runtime.

Fundamental Semantics of Extensible Business Reporting Language Dimensions

Introduction: In my previous article, I have discussed a broad overview of the concepts of XBRL dimensions. Today I am going to discuss about the semantics of XBRL dimensions. Hope you enjoy reading. This article assumes that the reader has gone through the former article here.