Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java has been around for almost 30 years, and Oracle regularly boasts that the Java Virtual ...

The drive towards newer Java versions and updated enterprise specifications isn’t just about keeping up with the latest tech; ...

Java remains a powerhouse tool for application development, but developers need to take advantage of new design principles to get the most from their applications. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

A lot of Java applications today can be extended, viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. One such example of this is the NetBeans plug-in framework. We can invoke ...

When Sun Microsystems introduced Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME, which was renamed recently to Java ME) to the world in 2000, the promise was to bring Java's "write once, run anywhere" ...

One of the most powerful uses of scripting languages is in "application automation", that is, the idea of automating a long sequence of steps such as: "select paragraph at cursor, indent 3" right, ...

If you cannot satisfy the performance with one server node when concurrent users are increasing dramatically, or you cannot scale your Java applications with one JVM instance due to the limitation of ...

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The Java automatic garbage collection process typically operates as a low-priority thread that constantly searches memory for unreachable objects, objects not referenced by any other object reachable ...