One way to keep Java code clean and simple is to keep your Java classes as small as reasonably possible. As a general rule, it's better to have an application that consists of many small classes than ...

The Java Runtime Environment provides a “container” for those elements and your code to run in. The JDK is the “compiler” that interprets the code itself and executes it.

Programmers would describe Java as both being “compiled” and “interpreted.” This means that Java code can’t be understood natively by the computer but must first be “compiled” to a ...

In fact, you don’t even have to code your Java into a file. JShell can execute lines of Java code directly on the command line. Java without a main method Historically, Java devs have had to code a ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and ...

“Java 14 removes so much noise in code,” Subramaniam says, pointing to Records, Pattern Matching, and Switch Expressions. (Switch Expressions was first previewed in JDK 12).

In this blog post, I look at how Java code can use the Package class to access version information about a particular Java package’s specification and implementation.