On forums dedicated to answering questions for people who are new to Java programming (such as the Sun forum called New to Java), a common frustration vented by many of the “regulars” is when people ...

Java Essentials Volume 2 provides structured pathway from Java fundamentals to advanced application development ...

The Singleton pattern is deceptively simple, even and especially for Java developers. In this classic JavaWorld article, David Geary demonstrates how Java developers implement singletons, with code ...

Writing succinct and elegant JDBC code can be difficult. You have to create a few different objects and catch numerous checked exceptions, even if you can't reasonably recover from them. Closing a ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

In a seasonal twist, Microsoft's dev team for Java on Visual Studio Code introduced a special education edition in the February 2022 update, courting educators and students with new functionality as ...

Write once, run everywhere: that's the slogan the Java community uses to propagate their language-of-choice. It's probably true, but only if you first manage to set up the beast on your box. This ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...