JArchitect provides valuable analysis and information, but the cost means this is not a casual purchase, if you’re spending your own money and not your company’s. Once you get past “Hello World,” code ...

It’s been a while since I’ve written code in Java. This week, however, I updated my installation of Eclipse, dusted off an old Java program, and saw that ancient artifact in a whole new way. Now, I’ve ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...

One of the best ways to protect your software project from avoidable bugs is the use of Java static code analysis tools. These tools can help identify and fix problematic code before it reaches ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

While singly-linked lists have many uses, they also present some restrictions. For one thing, singly-linked lists restrict node traversal to a single direction: you can’t traverse a singly-linked list ...

Computer programs can use data, evaluate if-then conditions on the data and use extremely fast iterative loops to perform these functions. In software programs, these functions get organized into ...