Note: Unlike most of the previous Java Fun and Games installments, which I wrote from the perspective of J2SE 1.4, this installment requires Java SE 5. Hidden words ...

The phenomenal growth of Java during the last year has made the language the popular choice of the world computing community. Due to its simplicity, portability and security and being the only ...

But that doesn’t worry this polyglot programmer, who has written books on Java, .NET, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, and now Kotlin: “Java is steadily moving in the direction of low ceremony and ...