Reference objects aren't just useful when memory is at a premium; they can also be used to provide slick caching abilities to any application.

Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want.

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern ...

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This ...

Language architects may find themselves down a deep rabbit hole as they try to nail down the meaning of the const keyword. Why is Java’s const keyword unimplemented? The const keyword is not ...