Specifications

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Java™ Programming Language

Module 8, slide 25 of 25

Controlling Runtime Evaluation of Assertions

• If assertion checking is disabled, the code runs as fast as

if the check was never there.

• Assertion checks are disabled by default. Enable

assertions with the following commands:

java -enableassertions MyProgram

or:

java -ea MyProgram

• Assertion checking can be controlled on class, package,

and package hierarchy bases, see:

docs/guide/language/assert.html