It’s been a while since I’ve written code in Java. This week, however, I updated my installation of Eclipse, dusted off an old Java program, and saw that ancient artifact in a whole new way. Now, I’ve ...

JArchitect provides valuable analysis and information, but the cost means this is not a casual purchase, if you’re spending your own money and not your company’s. Once you get past “Hello World,” code ...

Released in 1995, the philosophy behind Java is "write once, run anywhere." In other words, a program written in Java can theoretically run on any machine that supports it. While the implementation ...

While singly-linked lists have many uses, they also present some restrictions. For one thing, singly-linked lists restrict node traversal to a single direction: you can’t traverse a singly-linked list ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...