You understand the basics of domain-specific languages and now you’re ready to begin creating and refining them for your projects. In this third article in his series Venkat Subramaniam shows you how ...

What is all the fuss about Java lambdas? Easy - they make passing functions to other functions much easier. In particular they make setting up event handlers in GUIs such as Swing fairly simple even ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

Java developers have spent decades working with a basic assumption about objects: every object has its own identity. Now, OpenJDK developers are preparing to loosen that rule with JDK 28. That may ...