With the recent announcement of JEP 188: Java Memory Model Update, now seems like a good time to brush up on what you know about the JMM.

Enabling data layouts better suited to the performance of current hardware by providing Java developers with an easier path to cache-efficient and dense memory layouts without compromising ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails ...