Until recently, it has been quite difficult to create Java based tray icons applications. JavaSE 6 (aka Mustang) now supports tray icon development with the TrayIcon API.

Ant and Maven require XML, which -- in the eyes of some Java developers -- is a drag. More than a decade after Gradle's first release, the Java build tool is well-established, though still not the ...

Maven supports child-parent build configurations. If you have a series of Java projects that you need to build, Maven enables you to configure a parent build file and have child files inherit ...