From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java ...

Java’s interface language feature confuses many Java newbies. Many mistakenly assume that interfaces only sidestep Java’s failure to support multiple implementation inheritance. In reality, that ...

Programming languages inspire lots of questions from non-programmers: ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘Why are there 20 different programming languages that run on 10 different platforms?” “Can’t these ...