A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java collection classes allow a developer to keep track of contained items in one of two ways, ...

Do you need to know how to sort Java objects in a collection, array, or map? Here's how to use the Comparable and Comparator interfaces and avoid ClassCastExceptions. Programmers frequently need to ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...