In their 2009 JavaOne presentation Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe (PDF), Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter presented seven more puzzlers and extracted lessons learned from each of these puzzlers ...

Computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final fields, but greater flexibility in the timing of initialization, the proposal states. An OpenJDK proposal would introduce computed ...

System.out.println("The radius of the circle is: " + radius); System.out.println("The area of the circle is: " + area); ...

An enumeration is a list of named constants. In Java, an enumeration defines a class type. By making enumerations into classes, the capabilities of the enumeration are greatly expanded. An enumeration ...