Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...

Abstract: Refactoring is crucial for maintaining a project, but it requires developers to understand code structure and system design principles well. Recent research on Large Language Models(LLMs) ...

Abstract: While most forks on platforms like GitHub are short-lived and used for social collaboration, a smaller but impactful subset evolve into long-lived forks, referred to here as variants, that ...

There's a concept in software development called refactoring. The name sounds technical, but the idea is simple. Code develops unhealthy shapes over time. Files get too large. Modules know too much ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

Large Java codebases are one of the most common modernization challenges enterprise technology leaders face today. Financial services platforms last touched a decade ago. Healthcare systems that ...