Instance main methods and unnamed classes, coming in Java 21, will forever change how developers learn Java and bootstrap applications. Why? They provide a simple, clean and concise syntax to launch ...

Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...

Abstract: Java 8 default methods, which allow interfaces to contain (instance) method implementations, are useful for the skeletal implementation software design pattern. However, it is not easy to ...

Several public and popular libraries abandoned but still used in Java and Android applications have been found susceptible to a new software supply chain attack method called MavenGate. "Access to ...

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Abstract: Java (de)serialization is prone to causing security-critical vulnerabilities that attackers can invoke existing methods (gadgets) on the application's classpath to construct a gadget chain ...

A method can also be virtual, which adds support for polymorphic execution via late-binding mechanism (the method can be redefined in derived classes). This is one of the cornerstones of ...