For many years, Phil Katz’s archive creation, zip, has been one of the most popular file archiving formats. Sun has adopted the zip format as the basis for the Java Archive (JAR). Sun has extended the ...

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The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent‘s Executor ...

The long-awaited Hotspot-on-iOS project is reporting major progress: OpenJDK is now able to build and run on iOS. This is the next milestone on a journey that started a long time ago; InfoQ first ...

Creating dynamic web pages is necessary if a web site wants to display the current state of data accurately, for example showing temperatures around the world. There are several ways to accomplish ...

With mature technologies like JSP, servlets, and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) in place for some time now, Java has an undeniable server-side presence. In fact, many developers are increasingly viewing ...