Java’s sun.misc.Unsafe class has been in use since 2002. It provides essential low-level methods that framework developers use to deliver otherwise unobtainable features and performance. Unfortunately ...

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Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

The Java EE API, a reference standard for Java software development for nearly 20 years, was rebranded to Jakarta EE 9 in early December as part of its first full release while under the purview of ...

In typical embedded real-time software systems, each critical software component represents different requirements and tradeoffs. For developers who use Java in their real-time embedded system design, ...