Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java has been around for almost 30 years, and Oracle regularly boasts that the Java Virtual ...

Java remains a powerhouse tool for application development, but developers need to take advantage of new design principles to get the most from their applications. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

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Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that this simple assertion is wrong; after all, all of those Servlet and JSP based applications that you wrote ten years ago had no problem moving onto ...

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Here's a quick look at the three types of class loaders and everything you need to know to work with them in your Java programs. Java class loaders are a component of the Java virtual machine (JVM) ...

Java interfaces are different from classes, and it’s important to know how to use their special properties in your Java programs. This tutorial introduces the difference between classes and interfaces ...

After the initial hype following its introduction, has the computing world lost its addiction to Java? Not on your life. It's finding niches as an application development environment that affect just ...