In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects, Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as final so that they ...

Two facilities included in the java.io.File class since JDK 1.2 will help. The first facility, creating temporary files, frees us from choosing some temporary name for our source file and class.

Sealed classes make Java an even more powerful and expressive language and set the stage for even more sophisticated techniques such as pattern matching, which we'll explore in a subsequent article. A ...

If you want to master functional programming, the best place to start is with the Java Function interface.This example will show you four different ways to implement this functional interface in your ...