What is a staged builder? A "Staged Builder" expands on the concept of builders in Java. Traditional builders provide convenience when refactoring constructors and prevent you from accidentally ...

In many applications, especially those involving databases, constructing complex queries dynamically is a common requirement. This project implements a Query Builder class for a SQL-like database ...

In my two immediately previous posts, I looked at reducing the number of parameters required for a constructor or method invocation via custom types and parameter objects. In this post, I look at use ...

Some language features are just plain ugly. The first time you see them, you say to yourself, “If I ever have to use that, there’s something wrong with my design.” And most of the time you’d be right.

This is likely one of the announcements everyone has been waiting to hear. The question has come up lots in the past while. "When or will BlackBerry ever support OpenGL graphics?" Let us wonder no ...