The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

The Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in 1998 in JDK 1.2, is quickly becoming the standard for storing dynamic data in Java systems. Many new APIs use JCF’s container interfaces to provide ...

TL/DR -- In Java, I'm struggling to understand how to create an object instance of a generic type without first knowing the type. So, before I delve down into this, know that I'm trying to understand ...

The Java Iterator is an all-purpose interface that simplifies looping through a collection of objects. Java's ListIterator provides all the functionality of the Iterator interface, with four ...

Spring 3.0, a major upgrade to the popular open source Java development framework, is being introduced Monday by SpringSource, featuring full REST support for rich Web applications as well as an ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages today and is used for the Internet of Things, APIs, in big data technologies, e-commerce websites, scientific applications, and more. It's even ...

Borland Software Corp. today announced the availability of Borland JBuilder 6. It’s the latest major release of the company’s Java development environment, and it’s been developed to support Mac OS X.

The first decision to kick off a greenfield Java project usually sounds breezy: "Let's start with Spring Boot, it's everywhere." A few days in, someone mutters that Quarkus boots faster and saves ...