End your tour of Java’s essential language features with Jeff’s introduction to Java 8’s method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates that every ...

Java Essentials Volume 1: Programming Fundamentals distils important concepts in a clear, digestible format. In writing this book, Lawrence Decamora aimed to present Java not just as a programming ...

To get started programming (or if you’d like to ultimately work as a programmer one day), you need to know the basic tools. And in the programming world, it doesn’t get more fundamental than Java. The ...

An exception, simply put, is something going wrong during the course of program execution. Exception handling is the term used to describe how the program will deal with these exceptions. When an ...

Complete your tour of JDK 5’s language features by exploring autoboxing and unboxing, the enhanced for loop, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types. This article wraps up my three-part ...

We are now going to examine how to access your computer's serial ports. In order to do this, we need some sort of serial device to talk to. A serial port loopback plug is probably the simplest. These ...

Many analysts consider Web application vulnerabilities to be among the biggest security threats facing companies these days. A lot of attention has been paid to understanding risks such as ...