An initializer that makes complex class initialization possible. A class block initializer consists of the static keyword, an open brace character, initialization code, and a close brace character.

In recent weeks, there has been news of various features once proposed for JDK 7 that no longer are slated for this release. Although it is not unusual to reduce the scope of a major software project ...

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...