New developers can easily become overwhelmed or even confused by the vast number of terms and definitions associated with their profession. In particular, one of the biggest challenges that software ...

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 ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax that ...