Project Amber has brought a number of new features to Java in recent years. While each of these features is self-contained, they are also designed to work together, enabling data-oriented programming.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

Properties and methods make Java classes interesting. Properties represent the data an object possesses, while methods enable the intelligent manipulation of that data. However, to perform any ...

I got an email from a customer who wanted to use BLOB data type in their CMP entity bean. In this blog, I will provide an example and will discuss how can you develop your CMP EJBs to use a BLOB ...

When classes are more structure than you need, tuples let you specify simple type-safe aggregates of other data types. They'll also let you create a dictionary collection…but it won't be type-safe.

These custom types might be implemented as Data Transfer Objects (DTOs), as JavaBeans, as Value Objects, as Reference Objects, or any other custom type (in Java, typically a class or enum).