In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods. The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java ...

The example code below shows how to use Java’s DirectoryStream in a method to list the files of a directory: Although the above code might look similar to listFiles(), it is different in how ...

This used to work fine. I'm using eclipse and it's NOT telling me there is a problem with using these methods. I can even compile fine with ant but whenever I actually run the code I get a java ...

While singly-linked lists have many uses, they also present some restrictions. For one thing, singly-linked lists restrict node traversal to a single direction: you can’t traverse a singly ...

As noted, Java strings are immutable. Once created, a string using string class cannot be changed. Any attempted changes will create another string instance. Users can perform basic operations, such ...

The correct way to convert a String to long in Java is to use the parseLong(String x) method of the Long wrapper class. The following String to long example program converts the text String 90210 to a ...