One of the nasty little traps a Java developer can run into occurs when Collection.contains(Object) is not used with appropriate understanding. I demonstrate this potential trap in this post.

5. What is generational garbage collection? The JVM splits allocated memory into four separate spaces: eden survivor tenured metaspace Low-level JVM components, such as the string buffer and compiled ...

How to force Java garbage collection While a developer can never actually force Java garbage collection, there are ways to make the JVM prioritize memory management functions. In review, five ways to ...

Java includes various mechanisms for iteration, including index (for iterating over an array), cursor (for iterating over the results of a database query), enumeration (in early versions of Java ...