Sometimes when implementing a constructor on an object that requires calling another constructor there's a need to call a helper method that does some work. This is done either for convenience or because some work needs to be done on input parameters befo... (more…)

This blog post is about several approaches of File IO, benchmark and explanation of how each approach works. (more…)

Pure Java typesetting system. Contribute to DaveJarvis/KeenType development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

Java 8 was released in March 2014 and introduced lambda expressions as its flagship feature. This article sheds light on how Java 8 lambda expressions and method references are implemented under the hood, and looks at the generated bytecode and performanc... (more…)

Deprecate the Applet API for removal. It is essentially irrelevant since all web-browser vendors have either removed support for Java browser plug-ins or announced plans to do so. (more…)