Cay Horstmann's Unblog

Since Java 14, the Java switch and instanceof statements have been enhanced, in multiple phases, to support pattern matching and a "data-oriented" programming style.

Project Valhalla promises to flatten objects in the Java virtual machine.

The fabulous JCrete unconference ends with a “hack day”.

I like to use Java for small programming tasks.

When a new “long term support” release of Java comes out, I like to reflect on what improvements that it brings are nice, meh, ugly, or otherwise remarkable.

Are you living in Germany?

This year, Java One (super nice experience, BTW) was at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores, so I rented a car in order to better navigate the peninsular wilderness.

I just talked to a professor who is using “Big Java”, my college textbook for beginning programmers.

Having learned about DeepSeek, the new kid on the AI chatbot block, I tasked it with writing a solver for an annoying puzzle.

In this final article on my experience with the Advent of Code event, I describe how I attacked grid and graph problems, and summarize how Java has worked out for me.