You might know that Java passes by value, but it helps to understand why. Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow passing ...

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. Copying objects ...

Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo overviews NASA's plans to land the first woman and person of color on the Moon, describes the complexity planned with each mission, and how that complexity is being managed. In ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...