Java 8 introduced interface-based static methods because it’s often convenient to associate utility methods with interfaces instead of associating them with utility classes.

Daniel Kaplan asks: I come from a statically typed language background (Java). In Java, you have to return a single type from every method. For example, you can't have a method that conditionally ...

In this step-by-step tutorial, we showed developers how to install the Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse. The plugin lets them take advantage of static code analysis integration in the early stages of the ...