In Java Futures at QCon New York, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz took us on a whirlwind tour of some recent and future features in the Java Language. In this article, he dives into Local Variable ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Have you ever heard the person who talks about the weather on TV say that the weather is going to be variable close variableA named piece of data (often a number or text) stored in a computer’s memory ...

Java is one of the most commonly used and sought-after programming languages in the world right now. It is used in varied fields such as software engineering, data science, etc. Much like any other ...

Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo overviews NASA's plans to land the first woman and person of color on the Moon, describes the complexity planned with each mission, and how that complexity is being managed. In ...