The root Object class in Java has a finalize() method, along with other methods like equals() and hashCode().This is to enable every single object in every Java program ever written to participate ...

Not removing deprecated methods from the spec makes old code forward compatible with future compilers, and that certainly makes maintaining old code easier. But the Java approach to never pruning ...

Java's garbage collection features tend to confuse new developers. I wrote this two-part series on garbage collection to dispel that confusion. Part 1 introduced you to garbage collection ...