In their 2009 JavaOne presentation Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe (PDF), Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter presented seven more puzzlers and extracted lessons learned from each of these puzzlers ...

In my previous blog post, I blogged on the “code too large” problem and reproduced that error message. In this post, I look at the very similar “too many ...

Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...

A research prototype Eclipse plugin that refactors Java legacy code to make use of the new enum program construct that was introduced in Java 5. The Convert Constants to Enum refactoring for Eclipse ...

All java primitive types and their wrappers with addition of String are supported. Array versions of all those types are supported as well. Additional type mappings can be defined using Mapper ...

Const (constant) in programming is a keyword that defines a variable or pointer as unchangeable. A const may be applied in an object declaration to indicate that the object, unlike a standard variable ...