This article completes my introduction to new Java language features introduced in Project Coin, the JDK 7 language update. So far I have introduced try-with-resources, switch-on-string, multi-catch, ...

It was such a simple, brilliant idea. Use the power of Java 5.0 enumerated types to encode details of a data dictionary (attribute name, type, range, units, etc.) and create a type-safe system for ...

The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods, and ...

If you create a CustomerRepository that inherits from ReadRepository, you might choose to set the type of your base class: Public Class CustomerRepository Inherits ReadRepository(Of Customer) End ...