The Apache Foundation has proposed creating an open-source version of Java on the desktop, a plan that Sun Microsystems has initially welcomed. Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, ...

Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular choice for exchanging documents over the Internet, but how do you access and present PDF files in your Java applications? Jeff Friesen introduces ...

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

If you’ve ever written a makefile or designed a Web page with CSS, you’ve already encountered a DSL, or domain-specific language. DSLs are small, expressive programming languages custom designed for ...