Anonymous inner classes have undesirable characteristics that can impact the performance of your application. First, the compiler generates a new class file for each anonymous inner class. The ...

This post explains how to use classes in Java to build objects and organize your code. Also learn: constructors, static methods, and more!

A closure is like an anonymous inner class in Java. It is often used in the same way. However, Groovy closures are more powerful and often more convenient to specify and use. Groovy's uses Java's ...

Spring's application.properties file To demonstrate how the application.properties Spring configuration file works with the Spring @ConfigurationProperties annotation, we fill the file with a variety ...

A class named ScoreService is the heart and soul of this RESTful web service example in Java using Eclipse. As such, decorate it with an ApplicationPath annotation that defines the base URL of the web ...