There were some important changes to class loaders between Java 8 and Java 9. For example, in Java 8, the bootstrap class loader was located in the Java Runtime Environment’s rt.jar file.

For those who wish to decompile bytecode, the Java’s javap command will be of special interest. Also known as the Java class file disassembler, the command-line javap tool will output pertinent ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The entry point of a standalone Java application is the main method or function. In the age of ...

Another interesting observation from the last example is that javac uses the ... In the blog post Java duplicate class error, Morgy describes a situation in which he ran into the “duplicate ...