Administrative Systems Inc. sells software to Charles Schwab, State Street, U.S. Trust, and others managing pension funds. Two years ago, these customers told Administrative Systems that they wanted ...

The actor model provides a higher level of abstraction for writing concurrent and distributed systems, which shields the developer from explicit locking and thread management. The actor model provides ...

I left JavaOne 2011 with several take-aways. One of the most significant was a renewed interest in learning more about Gradle. In this post, I look at using Gradle and at migrating a simple Ant build ...

Oracle introduced its new open-source framework, Project Helidon, in September 2018. Originally named J4C (Java for Cloud), Helidon is a collection of Java libraries for creating microservices-based ...

MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) applications are piquantly called MIDlets, a continuation of the naming theme begun by applets and servlets. Writing MIDlets is relatively easy for a ...

Biz Stone called it "one of the most special days in the history of Twitter." And as it turned out, it was also a notable day for Java, a relic of the 1990s that is once again remaking the internet.