JavaOne: Java SE to support Visual Basic Graham Hamilton, VP and Fellow in the Java platform team at Sun Microsystems, talked about the future of Java SE in today's Sun general Technical session.

The Java static code analysis tool Checkstyle will automate this process. Checkstyle enforces rules that are simple and, when violated, easily fixed with an IDE such as NetBeans or Eclipse to reformat ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

Why does Java's standard class library contain empty interfaces like Cloneable and Serializable? Find out why in this sixth installment in the "Object-oriented language basics" series. You'll also ...

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In Java, you can have a section of code inside a class definition that looks like this:code: static { // statements go here }and the statements will be executed when the class is loaded (sort of ...