Taking screen shots with Java is pretty cool, but the Robot class can do much more than that. The Javadoc for the Robot class states: “The primary purpose of Robot is to facilitate automated ...

As you can see, it is fairly easy to aggregate data from active webpages with a Java screen scraper. There are a number of JavaScript libraries that perform a similar task, but if you want to process ...

I'd like to make an application what will watch for specific changes on the desktop in Java. I want to be able to time events that happen in an application.

I recently published an article on screen scraping with Java, and a few Twitter followers pondered why I used JSoup instead of the popular, browser-less web testing framework HtmlUnit. I didn’t have a ...