Download the source code for example applications in this tutorial. Created by Jeff Friesen. We’ll look at each of these methods and how you can use them to perform special tasks in the context of ...

I have previously discussed using JAXB2 Basic Plugins to add common methods to JAXB-generated Java classes. In this blog post, I look at another approach for performing the same behaviors on ...

Java got its start at the cusp of the internet revolution in the early 1990s. It was created by James Gosling and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems, who wanted to use a virtual machine and language ...

An exception, simply put, is something going wrong during the course of program execution. Exception handling is the term used to describe how the program will deal with these exceptions. When an ...

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 ...

Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...