While social media websites such Facebook and LinkedIn made it incredibly easy for a user to upload image files, the back-end implementation of such a feature has been anything but easy. Prior to the ...

In Java, encapsulation basically translates to this simple guideline: “Don’t access your object’s data directly; use its methods.” That is an elementary idea, but it eases our lives as ...

Java object serialization is a feature of the JDK that is far too often overlooked. When a developer puts together a prototype or cooks up a proof of concept, simply saving a serialized Java object to ...