Software developers in the Java space have a long history of creating composite software applications, packaging those applications within archive files and then deploying those archives to a ...

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 ...

A lot of Java applications today can be extended, viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. One such example of this is the NetBeans plug-in framework. We can invoke ...

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 ...