The boom in application servers in recent years raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created. Application servers separate systems functions from ...

Azul has acquired Payara to expand its enterprise Java portfolio, targeting application modernisation, cloud-native adoption, ...

Overview: Cloud-native and microservices architectures are becoming even more central to modern applications, with Java and ...

Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

JNI is essential to the implementation of Java, since the JVM needs to interact with the native platform to implement some of its functionality. Apart from that, however, use of Java classes can often ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a more flexible technology than servlets because it can respond to dynamic changes at runtime. Can you imagine a common Java class that has this dynamic capability too? It ...

We recently wrote about reinstalling Java to correct problems with various applications including Mail and Safari. While this may be useful for some users, Apple has released a knowledgebase article ...

One of the most powerful uses of scripting languages is in "application automation", that is, the idea of automating a long sequence of steps such as: "select paragraph at cursor, indent 3" right, ...

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