Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

Java's default constructor lets developers create instances of classes when an explicitly defined constructor does not exist. ... Boolean values are set to false, and reference types are set to null.

Here's the story. I've been tasked with creating a network application client. My inclination would be to use Perl, but I thought this would be an interesting experiment to see how well Java would ...