When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods. For example, Log4j‘s Logger provides methods such as ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

The ability to write clean code is important no matter which programming language you work with. When you work in Java, it's even more pertinent. Java has long been the world's most popular ...

In an earlier column I discussed using the Register and Resolve methods with Microsoft's Unity dependency container. However, if you've got all of Visual Studio's hotfixes applied, you'll have access ...

While it seems so basic that it wouldn't require a mention, there's a basic and often violated software design principle pertaining to Java method modifiers that is in need of explanation. A public ...