Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

Watch out Oracle, Pivotal is offering a lighter alternative to the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called ...

Watch out Oracle, Pivotal is offering a lighter alternative to the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called the ...

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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Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Fred Grott, a programmer who specializes in smart phone applications, has two models for his business: He can write specialized applications in native code that take advantage of all of the features ...