This definition explains the Java assert keyword, which is part of a newly introduced mechanism for troubleshooting and debugging applications.

Assertions were introduced in early programming language like Eiffel and has been around since 1967. Assertions are not new to Java either. They were a part of Oak, an early version of JPL (Java ...

Understand the methodology impact of Java's new assertion facility Assertions are a fairly simple construct added to the soon-to-be released J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4.

In my quest to find neato things to do with Java (a lot has changed since 1.1!) I've hit a roadblock. I've been testing stuff on a partially written applet (runs, just to do something more ...

Guava provides a handy Preconditions class with aesthetic advantages of assertions, but which uses the normal Java exception mechanism and is not disabled at runtime.