Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

If there is the same EC public key once as an ECPublicKeyImpl object and once as BCECPublicKey, then the result of the equals() method is true for the ECPublicKeyImpl variant (which is obviously ...

In this post, we will learn how to call a method in Java. This is a useful “chunk” of code that you can call from anywhere else in your program, thus preventing you from needing to write out the same ...

While it seems so basic that it wouldn't require a mention, there's a basic and often violated software design principle pertaining to Java method modifiers that is in need of explanation. A public ...

PlatformException: PlatformException(error, Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean java.lang.String.equals(java.lang.Object)' on a null object reference, null) File "message_codecs.dart", line 551, ...

Many software testing tools include a statistic known as the McCabe cyclomatic complexity metric in their reports. The term itself is a bit confusing, as the metric isn't specifically about code ...

In the current series of posts I am writing on reducing the number of parameters required to call Java methods and constructors, I have focused so far on approaches that directly affect the parameters ...