One of the trickier aspects of “general Java” development is related to comparing Java reference types for equality. Fortunately, most of us learn early in our Java development experience that ...

Like many Java features and APIs, there are "gotchas" in exception handling. A common irritation is to allocate, using the "new" keyword, an exception in order to throw it.

Java 11 is getting long in the tooth, so many developers are moving to the next oldest version that's still supported, Java 17. Here's what's different.

Java stores object values in heap memory; references to the value are stored in the stack. Another way to create strings is to use the new keyword, as in the following example. String s1 = new String( ...