May 01, 2014 Not Your Father's Java: An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1 By Ron This is part 1 in a three-part series: part 2, part 3 More working, useful code has been written in the Java programming language than in any other in history, with the possible exceptions of C and COBOL. When Java was released almost 20 years ago, it took the software world by storm. It was a simpl