Welcome to Java Q&A. In this new blog, I answer all kinds of technical questions related to Java. Each post presents one or more Java questions (based on a theme) and offers answers. Feel free to ...

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In the Java Q&A entitled “It’s Excel-lent,” I presented a method for reading Microsoft Excel documents via JDBC. Read Tony Sintes’s entire Java/Microsoft Excel series (JavaWorld): “It’s Excel-lent” ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Ten years ago, Sun Microsystems publicly debuted Java, a software that initially helped establish the company's forward-thinking reputation and that later spread to most corners of the ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...

The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes the ecosystem has undergone. In this article, I aim ...

The first decision to kick off a greenfield Java project usually sounds breezy: "Let's start with Spring Boot, it's everywhere." A few days in, someone mutters that Quarkus boots faster and saves ...

In the past six years, the Java programming language has spread from a handful of hard-core developers to an estimated total of 2.5 million users and has evolved from a client-only technology to a key ...

Big Blue's software business was once considered an industry laggard, anchored to its mainframe business. Now IBM software is a $15 billion business, happy to use its market clout to influence ...

As thousands of programmers converge on San Francisco to attend Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference, which opens Monday, Microsoft is working in parallel to convince some of the flock to switch ...