Java currently supports only primitive types and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are new types that exhibit some behaviors of both types of value.

Although Java lacks a true sizeof () equivalent, the Instrumentation interface introduced with J2SE5 can be used to get an estimate of the size of a particular object via its getObjectSize (Object ...

The Java Function interface is quite simple. It takes a single Java object as an argument, and returns a single Java object when the method concludes. Any method you can conjure up takes an object and ...

For example, you can use pattern matching to find out if a Java Object is a String. Here are some advantages of pattern matching: ...

Quite often a Java Stream or other component needs an object passed to it in order to perform some type of calculation or process, but when the process is complete, nothing gets returned from the ...

For example, the ObjectInputStream class provides methods that allow you to read data from a stream as a Java object, and the ObjectOutputStream provides methods that allow you to write data to a ...