After looking at some of the advanced ideas of classes and objects, we need to return to some simpler topics to make our understanding complete. We need to look more closely at data and, to get things ...

Type erasure in Java generics programming can cause a variety of problems in your code. Fortunately, there are ways to work around them. Generics programming in Java enhances type safety and code ...

Oracle has been working to bring value types to Java. This effort has been ongoing in Project Valhalla, the mission statement of which is to be "a venue to explore and incubate advanced Java VM and ...

Project Valhalla is developing inline classes to improve affinity of Java programs to modern hardware Inline classes enable developers to write types that behave more like Java's inbuilt primitive ...

Learn how to use Java annotations to associate metadata with classes, methods, and other application elements in your Java programs. There are times when you need to associate metadata, or data that ...