Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

Abstract: Garbage collection (GC) is a critical memory management mechanism within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) responsible for automating memory allocation and reclamation. Its performance affects ...

Oracle hosted the JavaOne 2025 developer conference last month at its Redwood Shores campus, marking three decades since the launch of the Java programming language. The three-day event focused on ...

Concurrency and parallelism are two notions that are often confusing Java developers. They might be considered quite similar because both of them execute several tasks as their main unit of work, but ...

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Explore Java's concurrency mechanisms, including synchronized methods/blocks, ReentrantLock, Semaphore, and other concurrency utilities. Learn about the complexities and pitfalls of manual ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a formal model of Java concurrency using the Object-Z specification language. This model captures the Java thread synchronization concepts of locking, blocking, ...