InfoQ

Java Feature Spotlight: Local Variable Type Inference

In Java Futures at QCon New York, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz took us on a whirlwind tour of some recent and future features in the Java Language. In this article, he dives into Local Variable ...
TheServerSide

Java's naming conventions

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 ...
InfoQ

Java Feature Spotlight: Pattern Matching

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is limited ...
InfoWorld

Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 4: Thread groups, volatility, and thread-local variables

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...