The Design by Contract technique stresses the importance of explicitly specifying the constraints that hold before and after a software component executes.

In this article, I present a DBC for Java framework called DBCProxy. This framework uses dynamic proxy classes, which were introduced in Sun Microsystems’s JDK 1.3. I’ll begin by briefly ...

Project Valhalla has posted a major update and has announced some initial, very early-stage design concepts for value types in the JVM.

Sealed classes in Java let developers limit the creation and use of subclasses and preserve the class hierarchy. Here is how sealed classes in Java work.

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...