If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least to me) choice for implementing the “common” Java object ...

Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using ==. This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers repeatedly ...

It's a spectacularly terrible idea. I'm not exaggerating--it's a really, really, really, really bad and obfuscatory way of doing something that is trivial and straightforward to do otherwise. The ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Notice how the output includes only the first String the Java Scanner read. The rest of the text ...