Explicit No-Arguments Constructor Versus Default Constructor

Most developers new to Java quickly learn that a “default constructor” is implicitly created (by javac) for their Java classes…

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Java Text Blocks

In the 13 May 2019 post “RFR: Multi-line String Literal (Preview) JEP [EG Draft]” on the OpenJDK amber-spec-experts mailing list,…

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A New Era for Determining Equivalence in Java?

Liam Miller-Cushon has published a document simply called “Equivalence” in which he proposes “to create a library solution to help…

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OpenJDK on GitHub

Project Skara was created “to … investigate alternative SCM and code review options for the JDK source code, including options…

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Viewing TLS Configuration with JDK 13

JDK 13 Early Access Build 16 is now available and one of the interesting additions it brings is the ability…

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Better Default NullPointerException Messages Coming to Java?

I have recently been interested in a February 2019 into March 2019 discussion on the OpenJDK core-libs-dev mailing list regarding…

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Java 12 General Availability

Mark Reinhold announced today that “JDK 12, the reference implementation of Java 12, is now Generally Available.” In that announcement,…

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jcmd, Circa JDK 11

Nicolas Fränkel recently published a survey of command-line tools delivered with OpenJDK 11 in the blog post “OpenJDK 11, tools…

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JDK 9/JEP 280: String Concatenations Will Never Be the Same

JEP 280 (“Indify String Concatenation”) was implemented in conjunction with JDK 9 and, according to its “Summary” section, “Change[s] the…

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