Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) defines an architecture for developing and deploying modular applications and libraries. In this first article in a three-part introduction to OSGi, Sunil ...

A new book, “Programming Web Services with SOAP,” by James Snell, Doug Tidwell, and Pavel Kulchenko, does a great job illustrating the Simple Object Access Protocol’s (SOAP) functionality, ...