Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...

In Java, nested classes are categorized as either static member classes or inner classes. Inner classes are non-static member classes, local classes, or anonymous classes.

This post explains how to use variables in Java. Learn the primitive types (and what that means) and just why variables are so important for any coding!

In this step-by-step tutorial, we showed developers how to install the Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse. The plugin lets them take advantage of static code analysis integration in the early stages of the ...

Static variables are bad for memory management. This state has to be handed specially by implementations, complicating garbage collection. The woeful tale of class unloading in Java revolves ...

Object Pascal has per-unit initialization and finalization (units being like Java packages), but not per-class initialization. You can easily initialize all of the class variables (static ...