One of the features that make Java so powerful, is its object-oriented structure. This means that Java uses classes and objects to create more scalable, modular, and organized code. This can be a ...

ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management problems (such as buffer overruns, de-referencing invalid pointers, and memory ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

A Java string is a sequence of characters that exists as an object of the class java.lang. Java strings are created and manipulated through the string class. Once created, a string is immutable -- its ...

Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof(). Although Java lacks a true sizeof() equivalent, the Instrumentation interface ...

In a recent project, I needed an easy way to traverse Java object trees and extract values from the objects. Instead of continually going through huge iterator-if-else setups, I wanted a tool that ...