Java’s strict syntax and object-oriented structure can make it challenging for beginners.Despite its complexity, Java offers ...

Software developers continue to be in big demand and the long-term job prospects look good. These jobs allow people to work for the largest and most stable organizations. People who choose a Java ...

I left JavaOne 2011 with several take-aways. One of the most significant was a renewed interest in learning more about Gradle. In this post, I look at using Gradle and at migrating a simple Ant ...

Alright, here goes: I want to code a game, and I've decided on Checkers. I don't need any fancy GUI or anything (yet), all I want is suggestions on how you, the reader, would go about this.<BR><BR ...

By Ethan Nicholas When the venerable Metal look and feel for Swing first debuted, its main aesthetic competition was the Windows 95 interface . Given the state of graphical user interfaces a ...

Simplified Java coding. ... Let’s look at three of the most significant JEPs: Local-Variable Type Inference, Parallel Full GC for G1, and the Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler.

Students in the Coding Club at Alexander Hamilton High School are sharpening their Java and Python skills in preparation for two programming competitions at the end of March.

So Java code wasn't so portable after all. Gosling: Yes, that's a problem. But at least the way it's always been done is that at least these special features are special features.

In the early 1990s, Gosling initiated and led a project code-named Green that eventually became Java. The basic idea behind it is that a program will run on a variety of computing devices without ...

Let's look at five popular Java static code analysis tools that can be used to test code from a number of different angles. Checkstyle. As software development teams expand, it becomes increasingly ...