In Java, encapsulation basically translates to this simple guideline: “Don’t access your object’s data directly; use its methods.” That is an elementary idea, but it eases our lives as ...

Java has a very rich set of libraries, running the gamut from basic data types like maps and regular expressions, through UI toolkits, and on to enterprise-architecture frameworks.

Checkstyle produces easily understood results. There is a simple Maven Checkstyle plugin, and the Checkstyle plugins for Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ enable it to easily integrate into all of the ...

Project Valhalla is an ongoing effort at Oracle that introduces value types, a mechanism that allows data used by Java programs to be managed much more efficiently at runtime. When Project Valhalla is ...

Write native methods in your Java code. Then run <I>javah</I> on that to produce headers. Use these headers to write a wrapper that delegates to the static library.