Every programming language has its quirks and Java is no different. In this post, I present one of Java’s oddities, which was introduced to this language in the Java 8 release.

A lot of Java applications today can be extended viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. Lee Chuk-Munn shows how. Written by Lee Chuk-Munn, ContributorApril 7 ...

Clearly, in such “mixed language” applications the ability to use Java with ASM can be useful. Note that the technique shown here can also be used to call Java code from languages other than ASM.

-Isolation of resources and data The Java problem is huge. As the world’s most popular programming language, the 17-year old Java language is used in a majority of enterprise applications.

On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. With the purchase of Sun, Oracle entered the hardware business and obtained the Java programming ...

The Java Servlet Specification defines a Servlet Container, a Web application and the Servlet API, which is the glue that holds these pieces together. A Servlet Container is analogous to a Web server, ...

A popular Java library has a serious vulnerability, discovered over nine months ago, that continues to put thousands of Java applications and servers at risk of remote code execution attacks. The ...

This hardware-based approach not only breaks through the performance logjam, but actually reduces system cost. "There is no doubting the explosive growth potential of embedded Java in mobile and ...