Java annotations were designed for metadata. Spring uses them for dependency injection. Lombok uses them for code generation. JPA uses them for ORM mapping. We use them to write entire programs. This ...

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Need more villagers for your survival world? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build an easy villager breeder farm in Minecraft 1.21+, fully working in both Java and Bedrock Edition. This design ...

Learn how to build the easiest spider spawner XP farm in Minecraft 1.21+. This design works in Java and Bedrock Edition, and is perfect for survival players who find a cave spider or regular spider ...

Before Spring introduced custom annotations, developers had to manage configurations like email validation using XML configuration files. The XML configuration would define beans, validators, and ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

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Java 22 introduces stream gatherers, a new mechanism for manipulating streams of data. Stream gatherers are the delivered feature for JEP 461, allowing developers to create custom intermediate ...

The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...