A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...

For those unaware, Minecraft realms are a subscription-based service using which players can get their private servers. They are excellent for playing with friends. There are many different custom ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

Do you need to know how to sort Java objects in a collection, array, or map? Here's how to use the Comparable and Comparator interfaces and avoid ClassCastExceptions. Programmers frequently need to ...

Players are always looking for new, exciting ways to enhance their Minecraft experience rather than attempting the same old survival challenge, and survival maps provide a chance to do exactly that.

Many data structures have been developed so programmers can store and retrieve values efficiently. The Java API provides implementations of common data structures and algorithms, as well as a ...