Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Although the snooze button is probably the most commonly used button on an alarm clock, even a simple AlarmClock class needs a few more features. For instance, you might want to control how long the ...

As the name implies, runtime errors occur during the execution of a software program. They occur when an application runs. Any time an application behaves in a way ...

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At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

TornadoVM, an open-source plug-in for OpenJDK and GraalVM that compiles and offloads Java code to accelerators such as GPUs, released version 2.0 last month, adding support for new data types and ...