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 ...

This project contains Java enums for common POSIX constants. It is predominately used to make calls into jnr-posix far simpler. If you want to add new constants to the project, note that all the Java ...

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 common pattern in Java applications is to extract strings and numeric values from the application source code and place them in a properties file. Each value in the properties file has a key which ...

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 ...