In this final article in the Creating DSLs in Java series, Venkat Subramaniam lets you see for yourself why JVM-compatible languages such as Scala, Groovy, and JRuby are better suited to creating ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

If you’ve ever written a makefile or designed a Web page with CSS, you’ve already encountered a DSL, or domain-specific language. DSLs are small, expressive programming languages custom designed for ...

Software developers in the Java space have a long history of creating composite software applications, packaging those applications within archive files and then deploying those archives to a ...

At a time when well-publicized security breaches have created corporate -- and public relations -- havoc, the need to create more secure software right from the beginning has never felt so urgent. But ...

Java turned 25 years old in May, marking a quarter of a century in which it has consistently been one of the most widely used programming languages. The IEEE Computer Society lists it as one of the ...

Macromedia calls CFML "a scripting layer for J2EE." The ability to integrate Java into ColdFusion provides all sorts of opportunities, including access to freely and commercially available Java ...

The JCP has made key changes to JCP 2.6 that will make the process of finalizing Java Specification Requests (JSRs)--which ultimately can become Java standards--more transparent to the public, said ...