Method and variable handles vs. Java reflection. To truly understand MethodHandles and VarHandles—what they do and why they are useful—it’s helpful to know a few things about reflection in Java.

The reason that null pointer exceptions are so unpopular in Java is that they are runtime exceptions. That means the app will compile just fine and you’ll only hear about them when you reach ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

To steer clear of any confusion or controversy with Java naming conventions, having a dash in a variable, method or reference type in Java is not recommended. Dot notation for package names The ...

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for ...