For those of us who regularly write code in Java or a JVM -hosted language ( Groovy , JRuby , Jython , etc.), the Java Platform API documentation is a very valuable resource. In fact, it is one of the ...

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Java API definitions In Part 1, I explained the distinction between prescriptive and descriptive API use. In a prescriptive definition, the API drives code creation, whereas in a descriptive ...