Java interfaces are different from classes, and it’s important to know how to use their special properties in your Java programs. This tutorial introduces the difference between classes and interfaces ...

The Comparable interface is simple because it only has one method; however, implementing the compareTo method can become tedious if you need to sort your object by multiple properties (especially if ...

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

There are only half a dozen classes you really need to master to become competent in the world of functional programming. The java.util.function package contains well over 40 different components, but ...

June 6, 2001— At Tuesday’s “Effective Programming with Java Technology” conference session (TS-2425), Joshua Bloch, senior staff engineer from Sun Microsystems, presented some powerful, but not well ...