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In my previous article “Double-Checked Locking: Clever, but Broken,” I looked at some of the problems with double-checked locking (DCL), an idiom recommended by a number of Java books and articles as ...

Although the snooze button is probably the most commonly used button on an alarm clock, even a simple AlarmClock class needs a few more features. For instance, you might want to control how long the ...

Variables are the bread and butter of coding. Without variables, apps would have no interactivity and no way of manipulating information. Therefore, learning about variables in Java should be among ...

When the macro processor executes a macro program statement that can create a macro variable (such as a %LET statement), the macro processor attempts to change the value of an existing macro variable ...