Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...

In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also ...

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In Java, you can have a section of code inside a class definition that looks like this:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">code:</font><HR><pre><BR> static {<BR ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works. One of the handiest new features included in the Java 18 release (March 2022) was the ...