Quickly patching vulnerable software is key to keeping computer systems secure. Yet, consumers are increasingly leaving their systems open to attack by failing to patch two ubiquitous third-party ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note: The original 1995 white paper on Java’s 7 benefits actually said that “Java is interpreted ...

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java? Among the most ...

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. In 1995, Sun Microsystems introduced Java as a way to endow Web surfing with fancy graphics and more ...

Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should aid in better securing Java programs against buffer overflow attacks. Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should aid in ...

Writing a Java application (see Android) that consumes a JSON API usually involves mapping the JSON objects to Java classes for use in the software. This is a tedious and repetitive task to say the ...

Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

Java to IL is probably much easier than IL to java.<P>Conspiracy theorists and the cynical minded might claim that this is perhaps one of the reasons for 'extraneous' language features in C#.<P>It's ...