To help programmers both anticipate and recover from runtime errors, the Java programming language defines a special class named the RuntimeException. Given their potential to stop an otherwise ...

Method and variable handles vs. Java reflection To truly understand MethodHandles and VarHandles —what they do and why they are useful—it’s helpful to know a few things about reflection in Java.

Java is influenced by C and C++, so it has many similarities with those languages (and C#). One of the big advantages of Java is that it is “platform independent.” This means that code you ...