When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods. For example, Log4j‘s Logger provides methods such as ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. They’re deprecating finalize. That’s a pretty drastic move. Finalize is defined right there in ...

It was such a simple, brilliant idea. Use the power of Java 5.0 enumerated types to encode details of a data dictionary (attribute name, type, range, units, etc.) and create a type-safe system for ...

Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...

June 8, 2001— As an object-oriented, network-enabled, platform-spanning language smart enough to include primitive data types for efficiency, Java has always been cool. But it just keeps getting ...