The Java Architecture for XML Binding provides a powerful and practical way of working with XML content from within Java applications. The newly released JAXB 2.0 offers many new features, including ...

Developers at this week’s JavaOne conference will get a chance to check the progress that tools vendors have made in their long quest to ease Java programming so they can better compete against ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

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When taking a test-first approach to programming (see Test before you leap), developers use unit tests to verify that that their code will function as expected. JUnit and NUnit are open source unit ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When the seminal Java whitepaper introduced the language in 1995, it listed seven key benefits ...