Java language architect Brian Goetz today posted a lengthy blog post detailing some of the proposed plans for the future of Java. He wrote that OpenJDK 9 is looking at making generic classes easier to ...

The release of Java SE 15 in Sept 2020 will introduce "sealed classes" (JEP 360) as a preview feature. A sealed class is a class or interface which restricts which other classes or interfaces may ...

This article completes my introduction to new Java language features introduced in Project Coin, the JDK 7 language update. So far I have introduced try-with-resources, switch-on-string, multi-catch, ...

The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods, and ...