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 ...

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 ...

Virtual threads are a lightweight implementation of Java threads, delivered as a preview feature in Java 19. They dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high ...

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

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 ...

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 ...