ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management problems (such as buffer overruns, de-referencing invalid pointers, and memory ...

Author Srini Penchikala discusses implementing object caching using three open source caching frameworks: Java Caching System, OSCache, and Java Object Cache. He presents these frameworks' ...

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Whereas Java and several other programming languages have a wide and rich range of datatypes and collections types, JavaScript only has a small number of primitive datatypes (Boolean, Number, String, ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

Java Essentials Volume 2 provides structured pathway from Java fundamentals to advanced application development ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Client-side JavaScript frameworks are all the rage, but they aren’t always the right answer if ...