The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general ...

Effective Java, Second Edition by Joshua Bloch is an updated version of the classic first edition, which won a 2001 Jolt Award. InfoQ asked Bloch questions about the areas that the new edition covers.

However, there are collection classes in Java that act like a Java array but resize themselves automatically. Any class that extends the List interface expands dynamically. Java arrays do not expand ...

Java 7 introduced an alternative to listFiles () called DirectoryStream. It works well with the for-each construct, allowing us to iterate over the contents of the directory instead of reading ...