Wouldn’t it be nice if all Java classes that you use, including your own, lived up to their promises? In fact, wouldn’t it be nice if you actually knew exactly what a given class promises? If you ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java ternary operator provides an abbreviated syntax to evaluate a true or false condition, ...

Google recently open sourced its Contracts for Java (Cofoja) tool. Licensed under GNU LGPL, Cofoja adds a group of Java Boolean expressions inside annotations that are enabled via a JVM argument and ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...