The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduces records as a preview feature. Records aim to enhance the language's ability to model "plain data" aggregates with less ceremony. A record can be best thought of as a ...

In my two immediately previous posts, I looked at reducing the number of parameters required for a constructor or method invocation via custom types and parameter objects. In this post, I look at use ...