Why does Java's standard class library contain empty interfaces like Cloneable and Serializable? Find out why in this sixth installment in the "Object-oriented language basics" series. You'll also ...

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

Java is an object-oriented programming language, which means it organizes data into components known as objects. That means the next stop on the 2023 Java developer’s roadmap is to learn ...

Bart van Riel has been involved in the Java and object-oriented world for more than seven years. He has worked both as a developer and trainer in the object-oriented and Java fields.

Java does a few things that makes it one of the tricker langauges; encouraging an unintuitive object-oriented structure, featuring many rigid syntax requirements, and generally being home to ...

Reference objects aren't just useful when memory is at a premium; they can also be used to provide slick caching abilities to any application.

The Java Function interface is quite simple. It takes a single Java object as an argument, and returns a single Java object when the method concludes. Any method you can conjure up takes an object and ...