I didn’t intend to start an “is evil” series, but several readers asked me to explain why I mentioned that you should avoid get/set methods in last month’s column, “Why extends Is Evil.” Though getter ...

It’s a 25-year-old principle of object-oriented (OO) design that you shouldn’t expose an object’s implementation to any other classes in the program. The program is unnecessarily difficult to maintain ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In this Java serialization example, we will use both the ObjectOutputStream and the ...