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Java is one of the most mature and persistent development languages that exist. Recently it entered into a 6-month release schedule which enabled to deliver more frequent updates to the language. One ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

An abstract class is a template definition of methods and variables in a specific class, or category of objects. In programming, objects are units of code, and each object is made into a generic class ...

The latest long-term support release of standard Java features always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API, a uniform API for pseudo random number generators, and much ...

This list is part of a Paste series of bottom shelf liquor and craft beer style tastings. Click here to view all entries in the series. There was a time when “stout” was an indispensable beer style ...

Uncle Bob told us that good architecture is focused on the use cases and not on details like frameworks, tools and so on. Following the "screaming architecture" rule I tried to focus on domain aspects ...