First, the bad news. Once again, Mac users are at risk due to a flaw in Java, similar to the one that enabled the Flashback Trojan. Even worse, there isn’t (yet) a patch to fix that vulnerability. But ...

Landing your dream job in programming or web development may seem challenging, especially if you don’t have a traditional degree in computer science. However, alternative education options like Java ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you know about Java to learning Clojure. Clojure is one of the most fascinating ...

Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and Oracle’s Java. All three are virtually ubiquitous on modern-day PCs, and all three provide handy-dandy functionality—functionality that, in the case of Flash and Java, ...

Today, my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott published a scathing investigative report of how Oracle partners with shovelware companies in order to monetize the distribution of the Java JRE. Given that I work ...

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 ...

With three proposals vying for inclusion in Java 7, understanding closures and the arguments for and against their inclusion in the Java language is essential. In this article Angelika Langer and ...

On Thursday, the world learned that attackers were breaking into computers using a previously undocumented security hole in Java, a program that is installed on hundreds of millions of computers ...