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An enumerated type specifies a set of related constants as its values. Examples include the days in a week, the standard north/south/east/west compass directions, a currency’s coin denominations, and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java ternary operator provides an abbreviated syntax to evaluate a true or false condition, ...

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 ...