In a previous blog posting, I listed some “everyday problems” Java developers will often face and included some ideas and links related to addressing these issues. One of the focal points of that post ...

Java developers have spent decades working with a basic assumption about objects: every object has its own identity. Now, OpenJDK developers are preparing to loosen that rule with JDK 28. That may ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

In a recent project, I needed an easy way to traverse Java object trees and extract values from the objects. Instead of continually going through huge iterator-if-else setups, I wanted a tool that ...

Obviously that doesn't compile, but I hate to make a file FooType.java with just the 5 lines above in it. Obviously that doesn't compile, but I hate to make a file ...