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Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...

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 Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options.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 ...

Abstract: It is generally accepted that variables with a narrow syntactic scope can have short names, whereas variables with a broad scope require more informative longer names. We study how names are ...

If a program wants to have a single set of settings or files to be used by multiple users, then it should use the ProgramData folder – but if it wants to store separate folders for each user, programs ...