The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes the ecosystem has undergone. In this article, I aim ...

If you look at people's experience with JavaScript (a language for advanced Web pages that's not related to Java). There are interoperability issues there between all the different flavors of ...

When the venerable Metal look and feel for Swing first debuted, its main aesthetic competition was the Windows 95 interface. Given the state of graphical user interfaces a decade ago, Metal was an ...

I've been recently playing around with Java as I'm planning on doing a project that needs to be cross platform even though it will be developed on a Mac. Now it's been a couple of years since I've ...

Everything in Java is an object, except primitives like int. Turns out that small caveat has big implications for the language, which have compounded over the years. This seemingly minor design ...