This transformational magic requires some actual analysis of the code. Under the covers, Eclipse maintains an AST (abstract syntax tree) — the deep structure (as linguist Noam Chomsky would say ...

Fewer bugs: Since Java handles the type casting automatically, you avoid mistakes like ClassCastException s. In short, pattern matching makes your Java code simpler, safer, and easier to read.

In what cases is Java faster, if at all, than C++? This question was originally answered on Quora by Cameron Purdy.

Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules Code, structure, sequence, and API organization entitled to copyright protection.

Google trial ruled that the structure of the Java APIs that Oracle was trying to assert can't be copyrighted at all.