Therefore, learning about variables in Java should be among the very first things you do when picking up the language. In this post, you’ll find everything you need to know. Of course ...

In this article, he dives into Local Variable Type Inference. Java SE 10 (March 2018) introduced type inference for local variables. Previously, declaring a local variable required a manifest ...

Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in a quick glance what's a class, a variable, a method or a ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years ... both MethodHandle and VarHandle give you “handles,” which are variables to reference the meta-properties of an object.

That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs where to find the Java installation. Java installers have come a long way over the years. In the past to install Java one ...

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread ...