A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings would prepare Java developers for a ...

Explore the key differences between Minecraft Java vs Bedrock editions to choose the best version for your gameplay style.

In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects, Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as final so that they cannot ...

The days of bloated, bug ridden, error prone web browser plugins are finally and truly numbered. Just last month, Adobe has practically started Flash's retirement ...

For decades, Java has been the enterprise world's go-to programming language—the reliable, if somewhat verbose, workhorse powering everything from banking systems to e-commerce platforms. But when the ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

CS 106A is Stanford University’s introductory programming course. The module – which is also available to view on YouTube – introduces the fundamentals of coding in an accessible way, and lays the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Anyone who sees the const keyword in Java would logically assume its original intention was to ...