Jeff Friesen’s Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional is out now from Apress. In this article Jeff introduces you to his new book by presenting excerpts from its chapter on the Java ...

Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java. Some ...

I recently returned from JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco. The show was impressive for a number of reasons. The attendance seemed to be about 30% larger than last year's. The same could be said for the ...

No one who isn't lazy writes scripts. Scripts save valuable system administrator time. In this article, I introduce the Sleep scripting language, which is a Perl-inspired language built on the Java ...

As part of its long-term plans, BEA is considering ways to let developers familiar with scripting languages build applications that run on BEA’s server software, said Bill Roth, vice president of ...

Oracle last week released a new version of its Application Testing Suite with a new Java-based scripting engine that automates both functional and load testing. The latest component of Oracle's ...

3. For some reason I thought TCO was going to be in Java 8 but I now can't find any evidence for that. The main Java enginers at Oracle (including John Rose) are very aware of the demand for TCO, and ...

ActiveGrid has released an update to its tool set which aims to bring LAMP development closer to Java. With ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 and ActiveGrid Server 2.0, the company has made updates to the Jython ...

CIO.com – Several weeks ago, Lynn Greiner’s article on the state of the scripting universe was slashdotted. Several people raised their eyebrows at the (to them) obvious omissions, since the article ...

Can you explain object-oriented programming to me like I'm 5 years old? Probably not. But here's a straightforward explanation of what OOP is ... Use Spring MVC MultipartFile, Java Path APIs and the ...