Abstract: Formal specifications such as Java Modeling Language (JML) are essential for program verification, but are complex and error-prone to write manually. Although recent large language model ...

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Abstract: Code and design smells are poor solutions to recurring implementation and design problems. They may hinder the evolution of a system by making it hard for software engineers to carry out ...

The proposal introduces APIs for obtaining CompletableFutures that are backed by managed threads (threads that are managed by the container), with the ability to capture context from the thread that ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

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Since its introduction in 2014 the Solidity programming language has become the de facto standard to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain network. Solidity is so popular that numerous ...