In the current series of posts I am writing on reducing the number of parameters required to call Java methods and constructors, I have focused so far on approaches that directly affect the parameters ...

// If all methods no matter 2 or 100 are written inside same class then they can be called or accessed even if private access modifier is there. Parameter vs. Argument: A parameter is a variable in ...

Java 7 introduced the Method Handles with the java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle and java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles classes. The Well-Grounded Java Developer (which I have previously reviewed) covers ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java ternary operator provides an abbreviated syntax to evaluate a true or false condition, ...

The general contract of toString is that it returns a string that "textually represents" this object. The idea is to provide a concise but informative representation that will be useful to a person ...

I've tried method call "read2ArrayData" as is and other ways but it keeps griping at me with "required value, found class" and I have no idea what it's telling me, other than "ABORT, RETRY, ...