Overview: Avoiding common Java mistakes significantly improves application speed, memory use, and overall stability.Choosing the right data structures and closi ...

In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program. The ...

Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. The general-purpose, object-oriented language is designed to be written once; the code can be run on practically any ...

The ability to write clean code is important no matter which programming language you work with. When you work in Java, it's even more pertinent. Java has long been the world's most popular ...

Released in 1995, the philosophy behind Java is "write once, run anywhere." In other words, a program written in Java can theoretically run on any machine that supports it. While the implementation ...

Microsoft has released the March update for its popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its widely used cross-platform code editor. It's also released an update for Java on VS Code ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

It's a commonly asked question in a world where every software developer wants to get the most out of every clock cycle their programs consume. It was also a topic at a Java "Birds of a Feather" ...