Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java developers have long desired the ability to quickly initialize contents of a List or Set.

In this example, Employee is a self-referential class because its next field has type Employee. This field is an example of a link field because it can store a reference to another object of its class ...

But how many developers understand how HashMap works internally? A few days ago, I read a lot of the source code for java.util.HashMap (Java 7 followed by Java 8) to gain a deeper understanding of ...