Obi Ezechukwu 's blog High-Octane Java recently featured the post Compact Equals , which compares an implementation of a Java class's overridden equals method in traditional form versus one ...

The HashMap tutorial also includes some useful code snippets that help developers understand what's going on with a Java HashMap under the covers. For example, the following code used in the tutorial ...

The required verbosity in the Java language is often referred to as boilerplate code, as the code itself follows a very repeatable and boring form. Goetz's team has taken a targeted look at the ...