Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Primitive types represent the simplest, most direct way to represent data in code. Even the most ...

Primitives have been part of the Java programming language since its initial release in 1996, and yet they remain one of the more controversial language features. John Moore makes a strong case for ...

A Java string is a sequence of characters that exists as an object of the class java.lang. Java strings are created and manipulated through the string class. Once created, a string is immutable -- its ...

If you didn’t know better, you might believe that Sun Microsystems had designed the JNI (Java Native Interface) API with the goal of discouraging Java developers ...