On May 23, 1995, Sun Microsystems released Java. This means that Java turns 25 years old and that is something we need to celebrate! Let's try to decide if Java aged like fine wine or more like milk. (more…)

Monica Beckwith and Anil Kumar discuss Java JDK 8u LTS to latest JDK 13 major changes as well as impact on performance and responsiveness to backported JDK 11u LTS. (more…)

Why are the first four bytes of the Java class file format CAFEBABE? (more…)

One day, I ran into SwissTable—the kind of design that makes you squint, grin, and immediately regret every naive linear-probing table you’ve ever shipped. This post is the story of how I tried to bring that same “why is this so fast?” feeling into Java. ... (more…)

Backpropagation - Using Java Swing to implement multilayer perceptron neural network which uses backpropagation algorithm to learn. (more…)