When you design a method in a Java class, some parameters may be optional for its execution. No matter it is inside a DTO, a fat model domain object, or a simple stateless service class, optional ...

In my previous post, I looked at some of the problems associated with long parameters lists for methods and constructors. In that post, I discussed replacing primitives and built-in types with ...

Some clarifications 1- All the commits that have added EXACTLY one parameter to a method of a class or interface (or nested class or interface) will be reported in parameter_adder_commits.csv. 2- Each ...

In the Second Edition of Effective Java, Josh Bloch introduces use of the builder pattern in Item #2 for dealing with constructors that require too many parameters.

This paper introduces parameter-sensitivity, a new methodology that improves pointer analysis for object-oriented programming languages such as Java. In this approach, we construct a method context ...