The Java programming language and anything related to the Java ecosystem
The well known Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in JDK 1.2, contains two basic and widely used collections: ArrayList and Vector. These two collections are very similar in terms of concepts and functionality, therefore they lend themselves well to being compared. In this short article I am going to describe the similarities and also the…
Java 10, released on March 2018, has introduced the new “var” syntax, a small but useful feature that allows you to declare local variables using the word “var” instead of specifying the type of the variable. This articles is focused on describing all the important rules about this new feature in a clear and concise…
The Stream API is one of the great features introduced in the JDK 8 release. Most of the time you use the Stream API to operate on values that come from standard collections, files, databases or other data structures. However, sometimes you need to create a new stream from scratch and in some situations, as a…