When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java’s (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum, it was worth the ...

In response to my blog post Using Java Enums for Units Conversions, mr. Bear observed that another approach to implementing the enum that stores temperature scales and provides conversion ...

Support for generics has been a long requested enhancement. It eliminates the need to use casts to change the type of a referenced object. Previously, Java collections were typically created to hold ...