Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

Persistent Java objects simplify the storage and exchange of complex object structures. Poet Software's FastObjects j2 is a pure Java implementation of an object database management system (ODBMS). It ...

Whereas Java and several other programming languages have a wide and rich range of datatypes and collections types, JavaScript only has a small number of primitive datatypes (Boolean, Number, String, ...

Another topic I covered with during my interview with Sun Microsystems' Joe Hartley was "Greenfoot," a tool that Sun helped develop (providing financial and consultative support to the developers) to ...

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The way we tell computers what to do, through programming languages, has changed a ton. We’re going to take a look at the ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...