Oracle became stewards of the Java platform as a by-product of their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But looking back, it seems that the Java Platform has been more of a burden than a blessing.

I previously blogged about using RESTClient with the Sun JVM-provided HTTP Server. As I stated in that blog posting, I intend to use these tools to demonstrate HTTP and REST concepts at Rocky Mountain ...

Discover freely available servlet filters you can use today In “Servlet 2.3: New Features Exposed,” I introduced the changes coming in the Servlet API 2.3 and gave a short tutorial on the new servlet ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...