In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also ...

Dan Heidinga discusses how to start a Java application faster, and how Graal Substrate VM, Quarkus, Project Leyden, and others can help with that. Dan Heidinga wears two hats: first as an Eclipse ...

Nested classes are classes that are declared as members of other classes or scopes. Nesting classes is one way to better organize your code. For example, say you have a non-nested class (also known as ...

Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch: "Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an object of ...

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Use Java 25 compact source files and IO.readln() to build an interactive number guessing game without Scanner, imports or main-method boilerpl... Package a Jakarta EE 11 web application and Open ...

The Java platforms (J2SE and J2EE) are filled with rich and useful features, making Java an extremely useful resource for more than mere programming. To use Java, a good scripting tool is needed.

A new project from Oracle seeks to solve the nagging problem of slow Java startup times and other performance-related issues. Dubbed Project Leyden, the effort will address these pain points by ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

In non-static methods you can use "this" for the current object. Is there an equivalent way to get the class for static methods? The reason I ask is I wind up writing code all over that needs/outputs ...