The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article shows ...

A tray icon is a long-lived application that sits on your computer desktop's system tray. Figure 1 shows some examples of tray icons in the authors system tray. Figure 1 Examples of tray icons in a ...

The value of a domain-specific language lies in how well it captures and expresses a particular professional jargon, which in turn depends on the related concerns of fluency and context. In this ...

An array in Java is a type of variable that can store multiple values. It stores these values based on a key that can be used to subsequently look up that information. Arrays can be useful for ...

The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...

At a time when well-publicized security breaches have created corporate -- and public relations -- havoc, the need to create more secure software right from the beginning has never felt so urgent. But ...