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 Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options.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 ...
Have you ever wondered how your favorite IDE manages auto-completion of method and field names? Even better, how does an object relational (OR) mapping framework like Hibernate support default fields ...
The Java SE 6 documentation on Object Serialization states the following about the uses of Java serialization: Serialization is used for lightweight persistence and for communication via sockets or ...