In my previous article, I described how to use Java’s reference objects, SoftReferenceand WeakReference, to build weak references and mark blocks as reclaimable in a simple application.

Since Java 21, wrapper classes have played an increasingly sophisticated role in Java’s type system. Here’s everything you ...

Any method you can conjure up takes an object and returns an object that fulfills the Java Function contract. How to use Java’s Function interface. For this Java Function interface example, we will ...

Simple method delegation: Use method references for straightforward delegations that don’t require modifying or processing arguments.For example, list.forEach(System.out::println) is clearer ...

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design. By Leonard Slipp ; February 5, 2001; ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory ...

For this example, we will name the returned Document object pageToScrape. The code can be placed in a microservice, a servlet, a RESTful web component or even a JavaServer Page, but for this example, ...