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 ...

I generally appreciate the extra type checking provided by Java Generics. There is no doubt they improve my code’s readability and maintainability while also improving my code’s runtime robustness.

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 ...

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, ...