Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

In recent weeks, there has been news of various features once proposed for JDK 7 that no longer are slated for this release.

Static – Means that the method belongs to the class and not the instance of the class Void – Means that the method does not return a value If none of that makes any sense to you, don’t worry!

There will be getter methods for properties, but there will be no setters. The number of wins, losses and ties maintained by the Score class can only be incremented by one at a time, so instead of ...

But this is not elegant, and it requires keeping track of too much information. The object oriented way of doing it is using inner classes. Also, we cannot use dynamic proxies to avoid implementing ...

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 ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements ...

Java 8 introduced a new list() method in java.nio.file.Files. The list method returns a lazily populated Stream of entries in the directory. As such, it is more efficient for processing large folders.