Wouldn’t it be nice if all Java classes that you use, including your own, lived up to their promises? In fact, wouldn’t it be nice if you actually knew exactly what a given class promises? If you ...

While developing software and its subsequent versions, developers often enhance functionality by modifying existing code. However, developers who modify or enhance that code are usually not its ...

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What is the single responsibility principle? The single responsibility principle in Java demands that a class serves a single, clear purpose. Any attempt to add peripheral functionality to a ...

Write once, debug/test everywhere is a variant on Java's write once, run anywhere claim, and it defines the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA). The JPDA is a client/server system built from ...

Depreciation is the decline in monetary value an asset will experience over the course of its useful life. Knowing the depreciation value of certain items allows companies to accurately report ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. These days it’s fairly common to see classes that require the initialization of numerost ...