Software developers in the Java space have a long history of creating composite software applications, packaging those applications within archive files and then deploying those archives to a ...

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The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

If you’ve ever written a makefile or designed a Web page with CSS, you’ve already encountered a DSL, or domain-specific language. DSLs are small, expressive programming languages custom designed for ...

A tray icon is a long-lived application that sits on your computer desktop's system tray. Figure 1 shows some examples of tray icons in the authors system tray. Figure 1 Examples of tray icons in a ...

Java apps are not new to anyone in the world. It became famous worldwide due to the invention of the internet. It has revolutionized people's communication, and Java apps have brought the world more ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...