Reference objects aren't just useful when memory is at a premium; they can also be used to provide slick caching abilities to any application.

Obi Ezechukwu 's blog High-Octane Java recently featured the post Compact Equals , which compares an implementation of a Java class's overridden equals method in traditional form versus one ...

In a recent project, I needed an easy way to traverse Java object trees and extract values from the objects. Instead of continually going through huge iterator-if-else setups, I wanted a tool that ...

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design By Leonard Slipp February 5, 2001 ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management ...

Need a JAX-RS tutorial that can teach you web services development quickly? This RESTful web service example in Java using Eclipse will do just that, showing you how to code, test and deploy a ...

Alex Ruiz and Jeff Bay describe how it is possible to write domain-specific languages using the Java language and suggests some patterns for constructing them.

String manipulation is always resource-intensive, but compiled regex in Python and Java can help keep performance issues at bay.

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