This Java tip introduces additional concepts and techniques related to fields and methods–namely field constants, field-access rules, chaining instance method calls, pass-by-value arguments ...

The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative approaches to reduce the number of parameters a method or constructor expects ...

The example code below shows how to use Java’s DirectoryStream in a method to list the files of a directory: public Set<String> listFilesUsingDirectoryStream(String dir) throws IOException { ...

In announcing Java 18 support for Java on VS Code as part of the April 2022 update, Microsoft highlighted changes including: Support Inlay Hints for Parameter Names: Developers can enable Inlay Hints ...

How to use the JOptionPane’s showOptionDialog method Java’s JOptionPane provides a simple way to read input from the user and display information back. The JOptionPane’s list of methods includes many ...

The big news in the July 2022 update to Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code extensions is that they all now fully support the Lombok library. Project Lombok is designed to reduce boilerplate code, ...