What is classpath scanning? Classpath scanning involves scanning directories and jar/zip files on the classpath to find files (especially classfiles) that meet certain criteria. In many ways, ...

At one time or another, developers experience frustration when dealing with the Java classpath. It’s not always clear which class the class loader will load, especially when your application’s ...

In a previous blog posting, I listed some “everyday problems” Java developers will often face and included some ideas and links related to addressing these issues. One of the focal points of that post ...

Java is one of the most popular programming languages on the planet and has been for quite some time. It’s pretty easy to pick up for newcomers and pretty powerful in terms of what you can create ...

The Eclipse Foundation has just announced the release of a new version of the Eclipse Buildship project, which integrates the Gradle build tool with Eclipse. Version 2.2 supports Java 9 and introduces ...