Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

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'd like to pass to a method an object, and a REFERENCE (handle?) to one of its properties, so it can refer to the value and operate on it. (For specific reasons, I CANNOT pass the actual value; it ...