Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Recursion in Java gets a bad rap. Experienced developers shun the practice over fears that an ...

There's a lot of excitement in the Java community regarding the latest long-term support JDK release. When that release debuts, Java developers will be welcomed with the familiar Hello World program ...

Each thread has its own stack. Stores method frames, local variables, partial results. Stack frames created for each method call. PermGen replaced by Metaspace (dynamic, OS-managed). String Pool moved ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Almost all Java middle-tier components need to log such events as database SQL statements, Java exceptions, and function entry and exit points. Those Java applications running on Windows NT must log ...