Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3.

The boom in application servers in recent years raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created. Application servers separate systems functions from ...

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How do you find out what is happening to a running Java application? You can find Notepad.jar in $JAVA_HOME/demo/jfc/Notepad. Once the Notepad application has started ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

JNI is essential to the implementation of Java, since the JVM needs to interact with the native platform to implement some of its functionality. Apart from that, however, use of Java classes can often ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Waratek responded quickly and launched Java Application Security which detects and blocks ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt ...

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, ...