Here's how to make classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects work together in your Java programs.

Method and variable handles vs. Java reflection To truly understand MethodHandles and VarHandles —what they do and why they are useful—it’s helpful to know a few things about reflection in Java.

In Java, you can have a section of code inside a class definition that looks like this:code: static { // statements go here }and the statements will be executed when the class is loaded (sort of ...

Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...

Getting Started Combine Static and Dynamic Types Late binding can bring great flexibility to Visual Basic programmers, but it has a serious downside in eliminating static-type checking and ...

Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.