It was such a simple, brilliant idea. Use the power of Java 5.0 enumerated types to encode details of a data dictionary (attribute name, type, range, units, etc.) and create a type-safe system for ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Kenneth Harris, a NASA veteran who worked on the James Webb Space Telescope, shares how hardware and software ...

Event-driven design has been around for quite some time. Within Java, both AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) and Swing are based on an event model. Java provides the classes EventQueue, AWTEvent, ...

Have you ever wondered how Java seamlessly combines its primitive data types with object-oriented programming? Enter wrapper classes, an important but often overlooked Java feature. These special ...

Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...

If you create a CustomerRepository that inherits from ReadRepository, you might choose to set the type of your base class: Public Class CustomerRepository Inherits ReadRepository(Of Customer) End ...