Learn how to use statements like if, if-else, switch, for, and while to declare variables and specify expressions, make decisions, iterate over statements, and more.

With that in mind, in this Java Tip, I present a short program that compiles and runs Java code statements simply by using tools included in Sun’s JDK 1.2 and above.

Java’s ternary conditional operator return The Java ternary operator must return a value. The statement evaluated in the body of the Java ternary operator cannot return void. For example, the ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ), the Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ), and Jikes. Programmers typically write language statements ...

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.