You might know that Java passes by value, but it helps to understand why. Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow ...

TODAY'S TIP REGARDS a performance characteristic that is particularly important to certain Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) applications, although it has applicability to other types of Java applications ...

Understanding object references is essential ... See my InfoWorld article, Does Java pass by reference or pass by value? for a deeper exploration of object references. Notice in this code that ...