The phenomenal growth of Java during the last year has made the language the popular choice of the world computing community. Due to its simplicity, portability and security and being the only ...

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This column demonstrates how a Java program can authenticate users in an Active Directory and retrieve user attributes. The Hashtable created on code lines 11 to 17 sets up the InitialContext.

But that doesn’t worry this polyglot programmer, who has written books on Java, .NET, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, and now Kotlin: “Java is steadily moving in the direction of low ceremony and ...