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Abstract: Refactoring tools suffer from usability in the areas of automating mundane tasks, providing user customization, and providing strategies for error recovery ...

Computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final fields, but greater flexibility in the timing of initialization, the proposal states. An OpenJDK proposal would introduce computed ...

We have verified class bytecode pre and post class retransformation and constant pool's constant index are intact and no change was observed. (refer to the class-dump.zip in attachments, it will have ...

Camel case and snake case stand at opposite ends of the variable naming convention spectrum. When multiple words are used to form a variable, camel case joins those words together, without any white ...

Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...