In recent weeks, there has been news of various features once proposed for JDK 7 that no longer are slated for this release. Although it is not unusual to reduce the scope of a major software project ...

In my previous post, I looked at some of the problems associated with long parameters lists for methods and constructors. In that post, I discussed replacing primitives and built-in types with custom ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language. To create objects and meaningfully initialize them, a developer must use a Java constructor. Constructors are a critical part of software development ...