One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note: The original 1995 white paper on Java’s 7 benefits actually said that “Java is interpreted ...

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java? Among the most ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When the seminal Java whitepaper introduced the language in 1995, it listed seven key benefits ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...