With the recent announcement of JDK Enhancement Project (JEP) 188, now seems like a good time to brush up on what you know about the Java memory model. Authored by Doug Lea, JEP 188 proposes the ...

It proposes a significant shift in the release model for Java library development. Java libraries are collections of pre-written classes, interfaces and methods organized into packages that can be ...

Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow passing objects by reference or by value. In Java, we can only pass object ...