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 ...

I'd like to pass to a method an object, and a REFERENCE (handle?) to one of its properties, so it can refer to the value and operate on it. (For specific reasons, I CANNOT pass the actual value; it ...

Over the last 20 years or so, object-oriented programming techniques have matured from a curiosity to a major component of almost every software engineer's programming toolbox. The reason for this ...

In X-ray Fourier-transform holography, images are formed by exploiting the interference pattern between the X-rays scattered from the sample and a known reference wave. To date, this technique has ...

Types in Microsoft .Net can be either value type or reference type. While value types are stored generally in the stack, reference types are stored in the managed heap. A value type derives from ...

For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...