JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 191 defines the Java Foreign Function Interface (FFI), which are interfaces that can bind native functions to Java methods and can manage blocks of native memory. This J ...

When you design an application to use RMI as a deployment option, you must follow remote semantics at compile time. Interfaces that may need to be remotely accessible must extend java.rmi.Remote ...

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application program interface (API) packaged with the Java SE edition that makes it possible to standardize and simplify the process of connecting Java ...

Java’s interface language feature confuses many Java newbies. Many mistakenly assume that interfaces only sidestep Java’s failure to support multiple implementation inheritance.

Applying the open-closed principle in Java The addition of an interface to our example helps to overcome the violation of the open-closed principle. An interface allows for infinite future extensions ...