Those of you familiar with the Builder Pattern may already be thinking what I was. That enclosing class looks a lot like a Builder with the nested class as its Product! It turns out that an ...

Following Apache Chemistry’s suit, another Java-based and open source implementation of the CMIS specification hit the streets. Meet xCMIS -- a server side implementation of CMIS developed by ...

Business process automation initiatives are transforming today's enterprises by optimizing efficiencies, reducing costs, and increasing shareholder value. In this two-part series, Siva Visveswaran ...

Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy.

Traditional Java Implementation Model The traditional way to implement Java is a two-step process: a translation phase and an execution phase. (In this respect Java is like C.) A Java program is ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...

Sun Microsystems wanted $30 million to $50 million from Google for a Java license, but Google decided to build its own implementation for Android after negotiations broke down, Google Executive ...