The Java 1.0 event model GUI programming for what was then known simply as Java (rather than the Java platform) started life with a wacky containment model for event handling. Instead of simply ...

When an exception occurs in your Java code, you can log it or you can rethrow it -- but don't do both. Here's why you must avoid that exception handling antipattern.

I recently blogged on the software development events in 2009 that seem most significant to me. Although the list was certainly biased toward Java, it was not exclusive to Java. Nevertheless, my ...