Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using ==. This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers repeatedly ...

There are numerous new classes, enums, methods, and interfaces being added to JDK 7 that may not get significant coverage in the blogs and articles on Java 7. In this post, I list and describe some of ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...