Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today's requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the sep... (more…)

Fast-moving series of tutorials on Java programming using Java 8. From popular author & developer Marty Hall. Source code, exercises, & exercise solutions included.

Exceptions are commonly used for flow control in Java, but how well do they perform compared to return values?

Java 9 comes with a rich feature set. Although there are no new language concepts, new APIs and diagnostic commands will definitely be interesting to developers. In this write up we’re going to have quick, high level look at some of the new features; Mod... (more…)

I love AWS Lambda. Removing the concept of a “server” from your application is huge. I won’t go into all the benefits of Lambda, but I can say from first han...