The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

Java is widely used across the world, so there is tons of invaluable information about the language on the internet. Also, Java forums are abundant, with pro and newbie programmers sharing their ...

This is the final article in the Essential Java language features tour, which started with an introduction to assertions in JDK 1.4 and has proceeded through every major platform release since then.

Java is a compiled language. That's good and well if you are a DevOps engineer building Java applications for a Jenkins pipeline. But if you just want to learn programming, it's not ideal to compile ...

An executive from Oracle, the company that oversees the Java language, and other industry veterans spelled out what the changes mean to developers at the QCon 2019 London conference.

Java used to be the primary language used for Android development, until Google announced that Kotlin would be its top choice going forward. However, Java is still officially supported, ...

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

Java is a powerful and versatile programming language that has revolutionized the world of software development since its inception in the mid-1990s. Developed by James Gosling and his team at Sun ...