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 ...

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 ...

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Recent articles on TheServerSide.com have discussed some of the challenges of troubleshooting and debugging Java code, much of which has focused around the futility of working with the de facto tool ...

Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the vulnerabilities ...

We recently wrote about reinstalling Java to correct problems with various applications including Mail and Safari. While this may be useful for some users, Apple has released a knowledgebase article ...