Reference objects aren't just useful when memory is at a premium; they can also be used to provide slick caching abilities to any application.

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 ...

Although Java lacks a true sizeof () equivalent, the Instrumentation interface introduced with J2SE5 can be used to get an estimate of the size of a particular object via its getObjectSize (Object ...

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design By Leonard Slipp February 5, 2001 ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management ...

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 ...

More importantly, Reinhold, announced Oracle’s decision to improve Java’s security by changing the way Java handles object serialization.