The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general, age ...

"Java by Comparison; Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples" is an excellent book. To describe it in one sentence: it teaches you how to write better and clearer Java code. Who is this book for? I ...

I have a friend who was a Java programmer about 5 years back. He has programmed in a few languages (C, C++, VB, java), so he is comfortable with code. For the last 5 years, he has been supporting a ...

I am a java developer... and we were using Java 1.4 till very recently.... when we upgraded to Java 6. I find that a bunch of new features were added in Java 5 and then Java 6... and I feel I am a bit ...

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This book shows how to understand what application you want to write, what strategies are likely to get you there, and then how to measure your level of success. This book offers practical, concrete ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article shows ...