Abstract: An eye-tracking study of 18 developers reading and summarizing Java methods is presented. The developers provide a written summary for methods assigned to them. In total, 63 methods are used ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. They’re deprecating finalize. That’s a pretty drastic move. Finalize is defined right there in ...

If two MediaType instances compare to a value of 0, then they should also be equal. MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE.compareTo(MediaType.TEXT_XML_TYPE) // 0 ...

Manipulating calendar dates is an essential aspect of many applications written in Java. Traditionally, developers relied on the java.util.Calendar class to get the ...

Abstract: Java 8 default methods, which allow interfaces to contain (instance) method implementations, are useful for the skeletal implementation software design pattern. However, it is not easy to ...

We discuss how to work with directories, sub-directories, and traverse them using Java and the DirectoryStream method. Learn more. A directory is an organizational file system structure that contains ...

In this post, we will learn how to call a method in Java. This is a useful “chunk” of code that you can call from anywhere else in your program, thus preventing you from needing to write out the same ...