Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

Imagine you are an expert object-oriented Java developer who meticulously crafts code the way an artist cares for their masterpiece. You believe clean code is an absolute necessity. Classes with clear ...

Class diversity has been a blind spot for many colleges. Will that now change? By David Leonhardt The University of Virginia, one of the country’s top public universities, enrolls a strikingly ...

Here's a quick look at the three types of class loaders and everything you need to know to work with them in your Java programs. Java class loaders are a component of the Java virtual machine (JVM) ...

America's middle class has been shrinking for the past 50 years. While middle class Americans remain the biggest income group by number of people, the same can't be said of the aggregate income earned ...

Enums referenced by a class should be nested as a public static class inside the class itself. Instead of creating a separate file to contain the enum class - which in fact messes up the namespace.

Sealed classes are classes that permit only specific classes to extend them, as a result limiting extensibility. Sealed classes provide several benefits such as: Java provides two access levels: ...