The Java Tutorial goes on to list bullets for when an abstract class should be considered and for when an interface should be considered. Unsurprisingly, these are derived from the previously ...

The author discusses his results of measuring the performance degradation of Java programs while using various data abstraction features of the language.

Flexible main methods and anonymous main classes would help students write basic programs much more concisely and reduce the ceremony of writing simple programs. Java would become easier for ...