This issue actually boils down to open source and closed software. Android being open source, allows the Apps to run processes in the background. It actually doesn’t kill the App once the user switches to another … Read more
Lambda expressions are one of the most attractive features of Java 8 release. Lambda expressions improve the Platform’s syntax and code redundancy by large. What are Lambda Expressions? Java 8 introduces Lambda Expressions, part of … Read more
Programming and developing good applications is always a challenge. The competition is huge, variety is huge, and developers continuously innovate to bring out best with new programming methodologies. In fast changing Android applications, you’ve to be competitive … Read more
If you’re a Java developer of Java application user, you are not new to the fact that startup time for Java application is huge, of the order of milliseconds to seconds. Drip, an open source … Read more
Once in a while a new exploit or vulnerability arises that affects every single PC on the internet and within a span of few hours, it spreads across the globe. Such exploits are often called … Read more
JUnit is the defacto standard for Java unit testing but story doesn’t end there. There are couple of worthy alternatives which offer couple unique features, if not everything better than Junit. There alternative frameworks for … Read more
After spending only months at Google (March-August 2011), The Father of Java, James Gosling, makes yet another switch. This time its not another software giant but rather a startup that he thinks suits his desires. … Read more
The long awaited and the most delayed version of Java is finally made available to public. The last Java update was in December 2006 and Java 7 was originally planned for 2009. Oracle announced this … Read more
If you love Java or Open source, here is a good news for you. James Gosling aka Father of Java, has joined Google and you will be glad to know that he would be again … Read more
Reverse engineering is everywhere. Reverse engineering made it possible for GeoHot to hack the iPhone, PS3. Reverse engineering is what make hackers develop exploits, viruses and trojans for systems. So what about decompiling existing apps. … Read more
VP of Java development at Oracle has hinted that the Java 7 is taking shape and could get its public stable release within coming months. There were couple of other announcements (which can be heard … Read more
Oracle’s Java One is just over, and there’s hardly any buzz about it. Is Java really Dead? o, No not even near, its still growing. After moving on from Oracle to Google, he had been … Read more
Everyone seems to be ditching Oracle after it’s acquisiton of Sun Microsystems first over Killing OpenSolaris, and recently because of the Java lawsuit on Google Android. The good leaders – Sun CEO and Father of … Read more
I passed out of grad college as an electronics engineer with little background of programming and luckily enough my first job involved Java/j2ee. The need of the hour was to learn it. It was hard … Read more
There was a along lived myth that claimed “java is slow”. Over the years, we’ve seen Java going faster, and occupying the enterprise, eventually, the mobile space. Running the desktop Hotspot JVM sure is an … Read more