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Developers often need to create graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that have a matrix-type layout with columns of different widths or rows of different heights. Those layout cells are unequal in order ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...