We’ve often thought that it must be harder than ever to learn about computers. Every year, there’s more to learn, so instead of making the gentle slope from college mainframe, to ...

Java would become easier for students to learn under a proposal to introduce flexible main methods and anonymous main classes to the language. This is a preview language feature, disabled by ...

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.