When the seminal Java whitepaper introduced the language in 1995, it listed seven key benefits that set it above its competitors. Almost 30 years have passed since that whitepaper was penned, and ...

Note: The original 1995 white paper on Java’s 7 benefits actually said that “Java is interpreted and dynamic,” but this was no longer true in 1997. Instead, we can say that it is “statically typed and ...

I've been programming Java in some form since JDK 1.0. Java development has a number of advantages over traditional environments which output machine language. .Net has the advantage of hindsight ...

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Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft.

One of them, Ada, offers advantages over the C family, especially in high-reliability environments. Another, Java (as extended with real-time enhancements), may be especially attractive in highly ...

Because the Java logging framework does its job so well, millions of IT professionals prefer to use it. But how does each one of the three sub-categories of J-logging get the job done in its own ...