Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...

Up to this point, the mixin functionality we have covered has been exclusively additive in nature, and does not fundamentally alter the original behaviour of the target class. However there are two ...

Mixins provide us with a great deal of power to manipulate existing classes, one of the most useful of which is to monkey-patch new interfaces onto existing classes as described in the first part of ...

I didn’t intend to start an “is evil” series, but several readers asked me to explain why I mentioned that you should avoid get/set methods in last month’s column, “Why extends Is Evil.” Though getter ...