This Java tip introduces additional concepts and techniques related to fields and methods–namely field constants, field-access rules, chaining instance method calls, pass-by-value arguments ...

Limits method overloading: Methods differing only by generic parameters cannot be overloaded due to type erasure. Restricts instantiation: You cannot create instances of generic types (e.g., new T()).

invokedynamic was the first new Java bytecode since Java 1.0 and was crucial in implementing the "headline" features of Java 8 (such as lambdas and default methods). In this article, we take a ...

Hiding Java method deprecation problems There are plenty of deprecated methods in Java, and there’s nothing stopping you from calling them. Sure, a yellow yield sign might appear in the line-number ...

Java's naming convention standards Java's standard naming conventions to differentiate between classes, types, methods, packages and variables include the following: Traditional PascalCase.