This tip presents an easy way to make self-extracting Java Archives (JARs). A self-extracting archive can extract the contained files to user-selected directories on any Java platform.

What is the purpose of a Java compiler? The main purpose of a Java compiler (or a compiler in any programming language) is to translate the high-level Java source code into a machine code file ...

For purposes of this post, I will be creating all files in the temporary directory defined by java.io.tmpdir and will use the new Java 7 class Files with its createTempFile methods to create those ...

Java Archive apps Each installation of the Java Development Kit (JDK) includes a JAR utility (named jar.sh on Unix and jar.exe on Windows) that provides a variety of helpful functions for working with ...

Native support for HSA’s specifications in JVMs is expected with Java 9 in 2015, and parallel algorithms will be executed natively in JVMs without extra layers of code. The JVM will recognize ...