All this is simplified in Java. You treat everything as an object, so there is a single consistent syntax that you use everywhere. Although you treat everything as an object, the identifier you ...

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design. By Leonard Slipp ; February 5, 2001; ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory ...

That technique — having a mutable and immutable version of a class that allows a read-only view of an object to be returned without creating a new object — is used in the java.math.BigInteger ...