Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. There is no single command that enables a developer to clone a specific Git commit. In Git, ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

The process of creating high-quality software is always a significant challenge for developers. Besides acquiring and honing the trained skills and knowledge needed to fulfill this process ...

Detecting code clones remains challenging, particularly for Type-II clones, with modified identifiers, and Type-III ST and MT clones, where up to 30% and 50% of code, respectively, are added or ...

Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want. Copying objects ...

I'am working on big space scientific mission for ESA and we were using this library in the past with Java 8. After the switch to Java 17 the cloning of objects that ...