A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

Understanding type compatibility is fundamental to writing good Java programs, but the interplay of variances between Java language elements can seem highly academic to the uninitiated. This article ...

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE 5.0) introduced generics to the Java programming language and platform. In the simplest case and typical usage, generics allow for the identification of ...

Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...

When writing a method, you can introduce as many generic parameters as you like which allows you to define relationships between them. I'd like to have this ability when defining a static member ...