In my previous post, I looked at some of the problems associated with long parameters lists for methods and constructors. In that post, I discussed replacing primitives and built-in types with custom ...

In previous blog postings on the Groovy JDK (GDK), I discussed use of GDK File functions such as File.deleteDir(), File.getText(), File.readLines(), File.setText ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...