Why does Java's standard class library contain empty interfaces like Cloneable and Serializable? Find out why in this sixth installment in the "Object-oriented language basics" series. You'll also ...

Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern ...

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

Java is an object-oriented programming language, which means it organizes data into components known as objects. That means the next stop on the 2023 Java developer’s roadmap is to learn ...

Java object serialization is a feature of the JDK that is far too often overlooked. When a developer puts together a prototype or cooks up a proof of concept, simply saving a serialized Java object to ...

Reference objects aren't just useful when memory is at a premium; they can also be used to provide slick caching abilities to any application.