At JavaOne, Oracle announced a big initiative to revitalize Java on the desktop, the Web, and mobile devices. Can it follow through? Java has long been a hit with enterprise developers, with Java EE ...

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Let’s imagine a situation where we want to write a pure Java application that must download files from a remote computer running an FTP server. We also want to filter downloads on the basis of remote ...

In most competitions cheating would be frowned upon, but among software developers, hacking the game is often a badge of honor. That’s one of the reasons Johan Vos is happy that the game he and his ...

Java security memo to enterprise IT managers: Better distributed client control capabilities, locked down Java servers and certificate-based controls are coming. Those three upcoming Java security ...

Sun is releasing the source code for a user interface technology that provides users with a 3D view of their PC desktop, part of an effort to drive greater use of Java on PCs and other client devices.