A class which is declared with the abstract keyword is known as an abstract class in Java. It can have abstract and non-abstract methods (method with the body). Before learning the Java abstract class ...

Abstract: This paper reports upon the results of an investigation concerning the use and type of Java abstractions employed during software maintenance. The source of data consists of eighty-eight ...

Abstract: In this paper, we describe a class abstraction technique (CAT) for Java programs that support the testing process by capturing aspects of software complexity based on the combination of ...

That's why it is important to help programmers balance performance with abstraction. One way to achieve this goal is to study performance-abstraction characteristics of the compilers and execution ...

I also present the results of a DAP benchmark run on leading Java 2 Runtime Environment (J2RE) implementations. Every developer knows performance degrades when higher levels of data abstraction are ...