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This project was born, several years ago, as the classic “kitchen sink” of stuff from other projects that was deemed of being reusable. Sometimes it grew in a disordered way, other times it was reviewed and cleaned up accurately. It contains different sort of things: from simple stuff such as a **```TimeProvider```** that can be mocked (for time-based tests), to **type safe ```Map```s** (following advice of Joshua Bloch); up to some more structured things such an extensible **```Finder```** to manipulate queries from a generic data source; **a facility for working with the DCI (Data, Context and Interactions) architectural pattern**; a **simple ```MessageBus```** suitable for using the Publish and Subscribe pattern inside an application. There is also some really exotic stuff, such as small implementation of **collaborative Actors** (working, but designed basically for didactic purposes). Actually this whole project is often used in Java classes to show things that are reasonably contextualized in a real-world scenario (the core parts of this project are used by working pet projects; something is also part of industrial project). There is good stuff and some strange stuff - in general an attitude of this project is to also try things in a different way than the standard. TheseFoolishThings supports JDK 8, but requires JDK 11 or 17 to be compiled.

This project was born, several years ago, as the classic “kitchen sink” of stuff from other projects that was deemed of being reusable. Sometimes it grew in a disordered way, other times it was reviewed and cleaned up accurately. It contains different sort of things: from simple stuff such as a **```TimeProvider```** that can be mocked (for time-based tests), to **type safe ```Map```s** (following advice of Joshua Bloch); up to some more structured things such an extensible **```Finder```** to manipulate queries from a generic data source; **a facility for working with the DCI (Data, Context and Interactions) architectural pattern**; a **simple ```MessageBus```** suitable for using the Publish and Subscribe pattern inside an application. There is also some really exotic stuff, such as small implementation of **collaborative Actors** (working, but designed basically for didactic purposes). Actually this whole project is often used in Java classes to show things that are reasonably contextualized in a real-world scenario (the core parts of this project are used by working pet projects; something is also part of industrial project). There is good stuff and some strange stuff - in general an attitude of this project is to also try things in a different way than the standard. TheseFoolishThings supports JDK 8, but requires JDK 11 or 17 to be compiled.

This project was born, several years ago, as the classic “kitchen sink” of stuff from other projects that was deemed of being reusable. Sometimes it grew in a disordered way, other times it was reviewed and cleaned up accurately. It contains different sort of things: from simple stuff such as a **```TimeProvider```** that can be mocked (for time-based tests), to **type safe ```Map```s** (following advice of Joshua Bloch); up to some more structured things such an extensible **```Finder```** to manipulate queries from a generic data source; **a facility for working with the DCI (Data, Context and Interactions) architectural pattern**; a **simple ```MessageBus```** suitable for using the Publish and Subscribe pattern inside an application. There is also some really exotic stuff, such as small implementation of **collaborative Actors** (working, but designed basically for didactic purposes). Actually this whole project is often used in Java classes to show things that are reasonably contextualized in a real-world scenario (the core parts of this project are used by working pet projects; something is also part of industrial project). There is good stuff and some strange stuff - in general an attitude of this project is to also try things in a different way than the standard. TheseFoolishThings supports JDK 8, but requires JDK 11 or 16 to be compiled.

A kitchen sink of small libraries that are used by all projects by Tidalwave. It mostly contains: * a few generic stuff such as ```Id``` and ```IdFactory```; * the ```Finder``` API for fluent query builders; * support for the DCI pattern (Data Context and Interaction), with optional Spring integration; * a tiny but functional local Message Bus, with optional Spring integration; * a small, experimental Actor library; * some test utilities. TheseFoolishThings supports JDK 7 and has got a small JDK 8 integration module. Since version 3.0 lots of old stuff have been dropped: * Support for Swing. * Support for the NetBeans Platform. * A very small support library for Vaadin.