Although Java lacks a true sizeof () equivalent, the Instrumentation interface introduced with J2SE5 can be used to get an estimate of the size of a particular object via its getObjectSize (Object ...

Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data. Any object representing a mutable data source in Java exposes methods for reading and writing its data as a stream.

Over the past couple of years, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has taken off at rocket speed. A solid understanding of SOAP concepts has become essential for any strong software ...

I need to figure out a way to convert a user defined type to a byte array and be able to reconstruct that type from the byte array. So far, what I came up with was to convert each variable in the ...

The Java Function interface is quite simple. It takes a single Java object as an argument, and returns a single Java object when the method concludes. Any method you can conjure up takes an object and ...

More importantly, Reinhold, announced Oracle’s decision to improve Java’s security by changing the way Java handles object serialization.