In their 2009 JavaOne presentation Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe ( PDF ), Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter presented seven more puzzlers and extracted lessons learned from each of these ...

The next screen snapshot shows the output of running the script again, but this time with 512 MB maximum heap space specified for the JVM. What happens when we try to compile a class with too many ...

Keywords const vs. final in Java. The final keyword can be considered the Java languages equivalent for const.. If a Java developer wants a variable to be constant, they mark that variable as final.A ...

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, ... Here are three examples ...

to this code: If Customer.State = 1 Then. Going back to my one-sided argument with Art, using a constant is the difference between this line of code: For i = 1 to 12. and this line of code: For month ...

If I declare a constant and use that constant in my code, I only have to change the value in one place: where I declare the constant. But, as useful as that feature is from a maintenance point of view ...