Have you ever wondered how Java seamlessly combines its primitive data types with object-oriented programming? Enter wrapper classes, an important but often overlooked Java feature. These special ...

Instance main methods and unnamed classes, coming in Java 21, will forever change how developers learn Java and bootstrap applications. Why? They provide a simple, clean and concise syntax to launch ...

Differential privacy algorithms typically distort data in ways that bias estimates from standard econometric methods. We describe a simulation-based econometric method that addresses this issue. The ...

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 Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options.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 ...

We discuss how to work with directories, sub-directories, and traverse them using Java and the DirectoryStream method. Learn more. A directory is an organizational file system structure that contains ...

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Update: In February 2024, a publisher retracted two of the studies that were cited in court by anti-abortion groups to claim that the abortion pill is dangerous. This article was first published in ...

create an extension class on Object with protected extension method foo() call foo from an instance of any object NPE java: An exception has occurred in the compiler ...