This article uses a story format to show the concept of records in Java. It shows the different concepts and parts that make up the records, including a restricted identifier, java.lang.Record, Components, Canonical, Compact, Normal constructors, and more.

The Minimalist — A Resolution

Working from home has taught some of us to think of being minimalistic. It was no different for our protagonist, “Dev” — Dev decided to be minimalistic with respect to some of the dresses — So he decided to keep track of what he was wearing to donate the new dresses. To keep it simple, he decided to keep track of two items, shirts and shoes, and wrote the following class in Java: