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While we’re on the subject of improving Firefox performance (see yesterday’s post on clearing the Downloads list), let’s talk about old, outdated Java Consoles ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6. In ...

Do you want to update Java Manually, however the update tab is missing from the Java Control Panel? Don't worry, in this article we will show you two methods for how to access the control panel. Set ...

However, escape sequences are not very portable. For example, Windows NT provides an ANSI.SYS driver, but only for legacy DOS applications (which a JVM is not). I do not recommend this option except ...

I'm writing a Java "wrapper" GUI for a CLI app that gets used pretty heavily. The CLI app is very robust and is a very good standalone program, but some people would like drag/drop functionality and ...