A design pattern is a well-established and documented solution to a common software problem. You can think of them as best practices used by knowledgeable and experienced software developers. In ...

Languages tend to be designed to fit the greatest common factor, which widens their appeal. Only problem is there’s a lot of bad design in that GCF. Enter Java nested classes.

First we’ll unpack the three powerful classes residing in the java.util.regex package, then we’ll explore the Pattern class and its sophisticated pattern-matching constructs.