In addition to writing Java books for Apress, Jeff has written numerous articles on Java and other technologies for JavaWorld, InformIT, Java.net, and SitePoint.

In the beginning, writing Java wasn’t much different from writing C or C++. Curly brackets and semi-colons did much the same thing in Java as in C. Loops were structured with the classic three ...

The Java input/output (I/O) facilities provide a simple, standardized API for reading and writing character and byte data from various data sources. This article explores the I/O classes ...

Give variables and methods logical names Another best practice on how to write clean code in Java is to assign logical, human-readable names to methods, variables, functions and other objects within ...

Creating dynamic web pages is necessary if a web site wants to display the current state of data accurately, for example showing temperatures around the world. There are several ways to accomplish ...

Sure, Java is still “write once, run everywhere”. Portability is still a central priority. But, now with Java 7 and Sockets Direct Protocol a whole lot more can be done with the Java VM.

Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Because few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure ...