External rules simplify custom business logic for non-developer subject experts. The Java lambda syntax is easier to read and write than large rules engines. By combining Java lambda syntax with an ...

Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Make Java security a top priority at every stage of application development, from class-level language features to API endpoint authorization Security is one of the most complex, broad, and important ...

Q: I am calling an external method in my application and want to intercept any exceptions it can possibly throw. Should I catch java.lang.Exception ? public class Main { public static void main (final ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. rolled out a Java Virtual Machine at the JavaOne developers conference aimed at boosting the Java language's performance nearly tenfold on next-generation ...

Sun Microsystems released its first-ever guidelines for the use of Java in cell phones, an effort to shape up the chaotic way in which the programming language has been developed thus far for ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that Google's use of Java APIs owned by Oracle is fair use. The lawsuit against Google, which began in August 2010, is now finally over. Since it's been banging around for ...

Software-checking business Tiobe has ranked Python as the top programming language of 2020 because it gained more popularity in its index than another language over the year. Tiobe, which uses ...

Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun Microsystems on the basic principles of the software. For ...