Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...

Imagine you are an expert object-oriented Java developer who meticulously crafts code the way an artist cares for their masterpiece. You believe clean code is an absolute necessity. Classes with clear ...

Inheritance is a common pattern in object-oriented programming, but it’s not easily replicated in a database. This Java tip shows you how to model inheritance relationships in JPA with Hibernate.

Download the source code for example applications in this tutorial. Created by Jeff Friesen. We’ll look at each of these methods and how you can use them to perform special tasks in the context of ...

This is the second part in a series of introductory articles on SystemVerilog (SV) object oriented programming (OOP). In the first article, we covered the basics of the class data type and the history ...