The author discusses his results of measuring the performance degradation of Java programs while using various data abstraction features of the language.

Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

Java object serialization is a feature of the JDK that is far too often overlooked. When a developer puts together a prototype or cooks up a proof of concept, simply saving a serialized Java object to ...

Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.