Abstract: Over the past decade, the application of deep learning in code clone detection has produced remarkable results. However, the current approaches have two limitations: (a) code representation ...

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

ABSTRACT: Microservices have revolutionized traditional software architecture. While monolithic designs continue to be common, particularly in legacy applications, there is a growing trend towards the ...

This holiday season, the monochromatic, sterile minimalist look is out, and the decked-out, cluttered maximalist Christmas tree is in. Although some might label these tree setups as tacky, many are ...

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Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral therapy technique that encourages beneficial behaviors by giving rewards or positive reinforcement. CM incentivizes certain behaviors and discourages ...

Switch statements and expressions in Java traditionally throw a NullPointerException if the selector expression evaluates to null. This necessitates an external null check before entering the switch.

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...

Count among the many emerging abilities of GitHub Copilot new functionality for rewriting your Java syntax in Visual Studio Code. The AI-powered code-completion tool, unveiled years ago as an "AI pair ...