One of the problems with Java for real-time systems is the unpredictable behavior of garbage collection (GC). GC introduces unexpected load and causes undesirable delays for real-...
Many threats that plague today’s networks (e.g., phishing, botnets, denial of service attacks) are enabled by a complex ecosystem of attack programs commonly called malware. To ...
The use of bad names — names that are wrong, inconsistent or inconcise — hinder program comprehension. The root of the problem is that there is no mechanism for aligning the n...
Abstract. Java provides a specification for a user-defined general purpose equivalence operator for objects, but collections such as Set have more stringent requirements. This in...
Design patterns are widely recognized as important software development methods. Their use as software understanding tools, though generally acknowledged has been scarcely explore...