Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch‘s Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague’s copy to browse it and consider purchasing a copy of my own despite already owning a copy of the ...

Constructors play a key role in all object-oriented programming languages, and Java is no exception. Every class a Java developer creates needs a constructor. Constructors perform numerous important ...

The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative approaches to reduce the number of parameters a method or constructor expects. In ...

The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...

While everyone using the .NET Framework creates Classes, not many developers create Structures. For those of you who are creating Structures, Visual Basic 14 has some good news for you: You can now ...