Get a deep dive into using method references in your Java programs, including stream operations, event listeners, and constructors and factories.

Java currently supports only two types of value: primitives and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are a new form of type that exhibit some ...

Despite this fundamental shift in the industry, one thing remains constant: great software development is always about ...

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 ...

I wrote about the NetBeans hint "Overridable Method Call in Constructor" in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints . In this post, I look at why having an overridable method called ...

We discuss how to work with directories, sub-directories, and traverse them using Java and the DirectoryStream method. Learn more.

Explore Java's latest feature, Pattern Matching for Switch. Understand its enhancements, including support for any reference type, new case labels, guarded patterns, and more!

Print and format a table with printf Sometimes it’s nice to format the output of a console based Java program in a friendly way. The java.lang package has no built-in table generators, but you can ...