While we’re on the subject of improving Firefox performance (see yesterday’s post on clearing the Downloads list), let’s talk about old, outdated Java Consoles. Java, of course, is the programming ...

The command-line interface (CLI) is the inner world of software development. From the shell, we have direct access to all the operating system’s capabilities, and with that comes the power to compose ...

The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them how to use the highly visual and user-friendly JOptionPane class from the Swing package. With one simple ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole’s usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6. In ...