Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Can you still use the Java programming language for free? What you need to know Your email has been sent There have been notable changes to the licensing and support for the tools Java developers use ...

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 ...

JDBC stands for the Java database connectivity protocol. Based on the same X/Open CLI standard as Microsoft's object database connectivity protocol, the JDBC applications programmable interface (API) ...

Java Studio Creator, a tool designed to appeal to Microsoft developers, will enter a broad testing program next month, in a version with added Web application features. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems will begin a broadly available testing program next month for its forthcoming Java Studio Creator, a Java development tool designed to woo away Microsoft programmers. The company said ...