Articles by Jeff Friesen

Before JDK 7’s debut, Oracle invited the Java community to submit proposals for new language features to its Project Coin mailing list. The open call ran for one month and nearly 70 proposal forms were submitted. Eight features were then selected f…

Before JDK 7’s debut, Oracle invited the Java community to submit proposals for new language features to its Project Coin mailing list. The open call ran for one month and nearly 70 proposal forms were submitted. Eight features were then selected f…

Complete your tour of JDK 5’s language features by exploring autoboxing and unboxing, the enhanced for loop, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types.
This article wraps up my three-part focus on new features introduced in JDK 5, this ti…

Complete your tour of JDK 5’s language features by exploring autoboxing and unboxing, the enhanced for loop, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types.
This article wraps up my three-part focus on new features introduced in JDK 5, this ti…

Get the scoop on typesafe enums and learn how to use them properly in switch statements, then get started with Java annotations and meta-annotations types like Target, which you can use to clarify the purpose and function of annotations in your Ja…

Get the scoop on typesafe enums and learn how to use them properly in switch statements, then get started with Java annotations and meta-annotations types like Target, which you can use to clarify the purpose and function of annotations in your Ja…

From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java language features, starting this week with ass…

From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java language features, starting this week with ass…

The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent’s Executor framework, synchronizer types, and Java Concurren…

The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent’s Executor framework, synchronizer types, and Java Concurren…