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 ...

Java is platform-independent and is compiled to bytecode with Java Virtual Machine, or JVM. JVM allows Java to be run everywhere, so programmers only need to write code once to run it on multiple ...

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.

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’s ternary conditional operator return The Java ternary operator must return a value. The statement evaluated in the body of the Java ternary operator cannot return void. For example, the ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

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.

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 ...