Describes how Java is a simple, object-oriented, network-savvy, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture neutral, portable, high-performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.

Project at MIT on "innovations in introductory computer programming".

Seminal paper on the demise of "absolute" encapsulation and transparency as an ideal.

Duke, the Java mascot, looks back at the very beginning of Java.

Introduces Java terminology for the Web developer.

John Zukowski reviews data transfer support within and between applications. Data transfer includes two tasks: cut, copy, and paste access to the user or system clipboard and drag-and-drop support.

There can be many situations when you are not able to tell, exactly what class will be instantiated until runtime - which is where reflection comes in.

Big business provides most of the market for Java.

By Richard Goering. A new approach to FPGA design is unfolding at the Configurable Computing Laboratory at Brigham Young University (BYU), where researchers have developed a Java-based tool, called JHDL, that has been used to design million-gate Xilin...

Andrew Newton reviews an alternative to Property files.