Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements ...

Java is influenced by C and C++, so it has many similarities with those languages (and C#). One of the big advantages of Java is that it is “platform independent.” This means that code you ...

Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz ‘s Instrumentation Memory Counter provides a significantly more sophisticated example than my post of using the Instrumentation interface to estimate object sizes.

The Java Function interface is quite simple. It takes a single Java object as an argument, and returns a single Java object when the method concludes. Any method you can conjure up takes an object and ...

Java stores object values in heap memory; references to the value are stored in the stack. Another way to create strings is to use the new keyword, as in the following example. String s1 = new String( ...

Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. The general-purpose, object-oriented language is designed to be written once; the code can be run on practically any ...