Hybridizing Java sounds sexy but learning ActionScript … not so much. In this two-part article, Chet Haase gets you started toward the Great Migration, with a Java developer’s perspective on what’s ...

This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show you that threads are easy to ...

Before 1995, software was very often built with C and C++. These are not idiot-proof programming languages. It’s possible—easy even—to really muck things up at very low levels within a computer, such ...

When aiming to become an engineer from scratch, one of the first things you worry about is "Which programming language should ...

"I would love to tinker with the Java language, but that’s not where I feel the pain now," said Java creator James Gosling during an early morning JavaOne session. He, along with Tim Bray, John Fowler ...

In this second part of my survey I list and briefly describe some of the Java sound and music applications known to work under Linux. Java applications show up in almost every category found at ...

It has been 20 years since the first version of Java was released to the public, and according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index for May, it's still the most popular kid in school. As I ...

Java is at a turning point, it seems. According to a source (via InfoWorld) formerly at Oracle, the language’s corporate parent, the future of Java is “planned obsolescence”—an indeterminate winding ...

Nope. Java weathered the predictions of its demise yet again, and though it missed being named TIOBE's programming language of the year for the second year in a row (good old C earned that title, ...

I've wanted to write this article for quite a while. Over the years I've noted that Java-based music and sound applications have increased in number and quality, yet no comprehensive list or summaries ...