The growing popularity of Java has been reinforced by a decision to standardize advanced-placement courses in U.S. high schools around Sun Microsystems' programming language.

In a previous tutorial we introduced the basics of pattern matching and its integration with switch expressions. Now, we'll dive deeper into more advanced Java pattern-matching techniques and ...

Much Java code is devoted to checking, double-checking, and then triple-checking objects. To simplify the code and speed things up a bit, Java has slowly been adding features that handle null ...