In my two immediately previous posts, I looked at reducing the number of parameters required for a constructor or method invocation via custom types and parameter objects. In this post, I look at use ...

Some language features are just plain ugly. The first time you see them, you say to yourself, “If I ever have to use that, there’s something wrong with my design.” And most of the time you’d be right.

Sun Microsystems on Thursday released version 5.0 of the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE), also known as Project Tiger. Sun claims that J2SE 5.0 is the most significant upgrade to the Java ...