InfoWorld

What you need to know about Java wrapper classes

Have you ever wondered how Java seamlessly combines its primitive data types with object-oriented programming? Enter wrapper classes, an important but often overlooked Java feature. These special ...
TheServerSide

Performance cost of autoboxing Java primitive types explained

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Primitive types represent the simplest, most direct way to represent data in code. Even the most ...
InfoQ

Java Feature Spotlight: Local Variable Type Inference

In Java Futures at QCon New York, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz took us on a whirlwind tour of some recent and future features in the Java Language. In this article, he dives into Local Variable ...
TheServerSide

Java double vs float: What's the difference?

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between a float and double in Java is that a double can represent much larger ...
InfoWorld

Exception handling in Java: Advanced features and types

Each JVM thread (a path of execution) is associated with a stack that’s created when the thread is created. This data structure is divided into frames, which are data structures associated with method ...