For example, we might create a variable for a computer game called “health.” This would represent a number, which in turn would describe how much health a player had left.

Method and variable handles vs. Java reflection. To truly understand MethodHandles and VarHandles—what they do and why they are useful—it’s helpful to know a few things about reflection in Java.

For example, you can start a Java variable with a dollar sign or an underscore -- but nobody does that. Sometimes machine-generated code prepends a dollar sign or underscores a Java variable to ...

For example, Java demands classes to be in Pascal case, variables in dromedary case and constants in screaming snake case. Java does not use kebab case in any standardized manner, while Jekyll uses ...

The "Understanding Java threads" series concludes by uncovering some of the loose ends of threading: thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and thread death.