Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Your specific reasons to open a JAR file will determine the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. While social media websites such Facebook and LinkedIn made it incredibly easy for a user to ...

Java Network Launching Protocol, or JNLP files, are used for launching Java programs and Web applets over the Internet or company intranet. While some browsers, such as Internet Explorer, launch JNLP ...

A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The new quarterly release of the open source IDE brings the "Compare With | Clipboard" function as well as improvements for ...

I know there's no practical purpose to this it's entirely theoretical. and I know a jar file uses the zip format. But how does one create a jar file without a manifest file. (I don't mean creating a ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

I have touched on several subjects in individual posts prior to this one that now come together in this single post. These subjects include use of File.deleteOnExit() in Groovy, creation of temporary ...