Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services. The term API stands for ...

Key Java proponents are up in arms over the planned elimination of the private API sun.misc.Unsafe in the upcoming Java Standard Edition 9 release. Although an officially unsupported API, ...

Charles Duan is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, DC . He has authored several amicus curiae briefs in the ...

This article illustrates how to program using the new features of the Java Message Service (JMS) 1.1 API. The new features in JMS 1.1 are demonstrated through a sample application. JMS 1.1 is the ...

APIs, or application programming interfaces, make the digital world go round. Working behind the scenes to define the parameters by which software applications communicate with each other, APIs ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.