In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects , Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as ...

Java doesn't work like this, java.lang.String and java.lang.StringBuffer aren't related through inheritance and when you call StringBuffer.toString () a brand new String is created with a copy of ...

I have previously blogged on how Groovy and ActionScript provide demonstrations of switching on Strings functionality that has not been available in Java. JDK 7 changes this for Java by ...