Assertions were introduced in early programming language like Eiffel and has been around since 1967. Assertions are not new to Java either. They were a part of Oak, an early version of JPL (Java ...

This definition explains the Java assert keyword, which is part of a newly introduced mechanism for troubleshooting and debugging applications.

J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4 adds a simple assertion facility to Java. At the simplest level, an assertion checks a boolean-typed expression that a developer specifically proclaims ...

Assertions are a fairly simple construct added to the soon-to-be released J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4. As a basic description, an assertion specifies a boolean-typed expression a ...

Adding assertions in Java 1.4 fulfills a goal that language designer James Gosling had reluctantly deferred from early versions.

In my quest to find neato things to do with Java (a lot has changed since 1.1!) I've hit a roadblock. I've been testing stuff on a partially written applet (runs, just to do something more ...