Every programming language has its quirks and Java is no different. In this post, I present one of Java’s oddities, which was introduced to this language in the Java 8 release.

A lot of Java applications today can be extended viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. Lee Chuk-Munn shows how. Written by Lee Chuk-Munn, ContributorApril 7 ...

More fundamentally, Java 9 completely refactors Java’s modularity paradigm. Anyone who’s programmed in Java will know that typically you import dozens of packages which contain library and other ...

Clearly, in such “mixed language” applications the ability to use Java with ASM can be useful. Note that the technique shown here can also be used to call Java code from languages other than ASM.

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

-Isolation of resources and data The Java problem is huge. As the world’s most popular programming language, the 17-year old Java language is used in a majority of enterprise applications.

The Java Servlet Specification defines a Servlet Container, a Web application and the Servlet API, which is the glue that holds these pieces together. A Servlet Container is analogous to a Web server, ...

While public clouds generally support multiple programming languages, including Python, Java, C++ and Rust, using programming languages that need to be compiled for a target platform will mean ...

Java provides threads and locks as the primary parallel programming model during operation. It is very simple, it is very straight forward, but it has an obvious cost model. It turns out that in ...