Enhance your Java skills with these quick Java tips. First, see how the Decorator pattern can reduce coding. Then, learn how you can overcome a limitation of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library.

Being somewhat of a closet Luddite, I only recently purchased my first cell phone. My phone is faceplate-ready — in other words, I can snap on a stylish faceplate. As far as I can tell, faceplates are ...

Java’s character and assorted string classes offer low-level support for pattern matching, but that support typically leads to complex code. For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers the ...