Currently the Java platform is one of the most consolidated in the world, much of this is due to platform's ability to support other languages such as Kotlin, Groovy and Scala, etc. Thousands of web and mobile applications are developed using the platform as a base. The Java platform has changed a lot in recent years and probably will keep evolving. In parallel with these changes, we see the ev...

In my previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also showed you how to use nesting to avoid name conflicts between nested reference types and top-level reference types that share the same name. Along with nesting, Java uses packages to resolve same...