A Java Archive, or JAR file, contains all of the various components that make up a self-contained, executable Java application, deployable Java applet or, most commonly, a Java library to which any ...

In the previous post Java SE 7 Brings Better File Handling than Ever to Groovy, I discussed the ability to use Java 7’s NIO.2 implementation to discover a wide set of attributes, characteristics, and ...

The article Secure Coding: Preventing unauthorized access through path traversal (CWE-22) has already described the dangers posed by the critical vulnerability CWE-22 (path traversal) in software ...

The Javadoc documentation for the Package class states: Package objects contain version information about the implementation and specification of a Java package. This versioning information is ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...

IBM subsidiary Red Hat has released a new extension for Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor. Language Support for Java by Red Hat, available on the VS Code Marketplace, ...