Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type ...

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We keep seeing crash related to a static thread local variable during thread initialization or exiting. Attached is the backtrace when creating a new thread and allocating resource for a static thread ...

ABSTRACT: Security vulnerabilities are a widespread and costly aspect of software engineering. Although tools exist to detect these vulnerabilities, non-machine learning techniques are often rigid and ...

The ability to declare a variable as static for a proc etc so global variables don't have to be used and thus stored in the BSS segment affecting efficiency. Closures could be used, at the expense of ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

Static charge is more than a slight nuisance and a brief, surprising shock. It can cause damage to sensitive electronic components, raise the electromagnetic interference (EMI) or radio frequency ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...