From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

With the increasingly complexity of concurrent applications, many developers find that Java’s low-level threading capabilities are insufficient to their programming needs. In that case, it might be ...