Due to a number of differences between various platforms it is very difficult to present system specific information in a consistent manner. When getting closer to system specific details, like file system information, a Java programmer has to become aware of the operating system hosting his program in order to make sense of the information [...]
Introduced in Java 6 is the option of displaying a splash screen when an application starts. The splash image file can be specified on the command line with the new splash option -splash:splash.jpg or in the manifest of a jar file with the SplashScreen-Image option.
An anonymous class in Java is a class with no specified name declared and instantiated at the same time. Because it has no name it can only be used once at place of declaration. Anonymous classes implement an interface or extend a class. They cannot declare their own constructors (they don’t have a name known [...]
Local inner classes are declared inside of a block of code. This block can be static bloc, a constructor, a method or simply a block of code surrounded with curly braces. These classes are only visible inside the enclosing bloc, but inside the block full hierarchies of classes can be developed. Local inner classes can [...]
An inner class is a class declared inside another class. The enclosing class can be a top level class or another inner class. The reason for using inner classes is to properly implement composition when the life of inner class instances are controlled by the outer class instance. Since the inner class instances are always [...]
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