Over the course of the summer, I had to go through a severe learning curve to write a Web catalogue application for a publishing company in Toronto. The focus of this column is the one area on ...

There's nothing special about writing Java code in a Maven project with Eclipse. For the most part, it's business as usual. However, you'll want to explore various build-specific features and tools ...

A key Java platform developer is moving forward with an experimental programming language dubbed Mirah, which attempts to meld the niceties of Ruby with the heavy-duty performance of Java. Topics ...

Oracle will nevertheless have a financial incentive to make Java better, which hopefully will translate into a specific kind of goodwill — one that gets more people writing Java code, pierced or ...