Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

The following command enables you to run any Java JAR file on the command line: java -jar jarfilename.jar To use the JAR file opener that comes when you install Java with the JDK, just issue the ...

While social media websites such Facebook and LinkedIn made it incredibly easy for a user to upload image files, the back-end implementation of such a feature has been anything but easy. Prior to the ...

How to Configure Chrome to Open JNLP Files. Java Network Launching Protocol, or JNLP files, are used for launching Java programs and Web applets over the Internet or company intranet. While some ...

For purposes of this post, I will be creating all files in the temporary directory defined by java.io.tmpdir and will use the new Java 7 class Files with its createTempFile methods to create those ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome.

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to JFXtras, utilities and add-ons that fill in useful features that are absent in JavaFX 1.0.