In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods . The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java ...

The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative approaches to reduce the number of parameters a method or constructor expects ...

A public method should never be called by another public method within the same class hierarchy. It should only be called by other classes via the classes' public interface. Class calls might not be ...

invokedynamic was the first new Java bytecode since Java 1.0 and was crucial in implementing the "headline" features of Java 8 (such as lambdas and default methods). In this article, we take a ...

The traditional way to implement Java is a two-step process: a translation phase and an execution phase. (In this respect Java is like C.) A Java program is compiled by javac, which produces one or ...

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Java's naming convention standards Java's standard naming conventions to differentiate between classes, types, methods, packages and variables include the following: Traditional PascalCase.