Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods and fields. One of the things that distinguishes a veteran Java developer is familiarity with reflection and its ...

When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods. For example, Log4j‘s Logger provides methods such as ...

That’s a pretty drastic move. Finalize is defined right there in the Object class, right at the top of the Java hierarchy, more exposed than a public variable. But the semantics of the finalize method ...