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The rise of rich Internet applications (RIAs) has lately become a hot topic in the Java community. In addition to new technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), MacroMedia Flex, and ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them ...

Ease of use is a frequently cited mantra in software that is meant to reduce human drudgery and tedium. Unfortunately, much of the software in the market is often unfriendly to first-time or casual ...

A few years ago I wrote a Soduko solver in Java. Works great, except I have to edit the source file to change the input because I could never get Swing to work like my mental model said it should. Cut ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...