One of the nasty little traps a Java developer can run into occurs when Collection.contains(Object) is not used with appropriate understanding. I demonstrate this potential trap in this post.

File IntegerListTest.java contains a Java program that provides menu-driven testing for the IntegerList class. Copy both files to your directory, and compile and run IntegerListTest to see how it ...

Florian Mueller has been killing it these past few months with his analysis of various tech patent suits on his FOSSpatents blog, and today he's unearthed a pretty major bombshell: at least 43 ...

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

The US government advised people to stop using Java last week Oracle issued an emergency update to its widely-used Java web software on Sunday, but experts say it still contains security flaws ...