Hot on the heels of the latest Eclipse release comes version 6.7 of Netbeans. The main enhancement focuses on the increased support for developer collaboration. Netbeans now works hand in ... Read More

A declaration statement is used to declare a variable by specifying its data type and name. For example, the following three declaration statements declare int, boolean and String variables: ... Read More

As it's the end of June, it should come as no surprise to see the next version of Eclipse appearing on the horizon. Galileo (or if you prefer Eclipse v3.5) ... Read More

If expressions are akin to clauses in the English language, then statements are like sentences. A sentence forms a complete idea which can include one or more clauses. Likewise, a ... Read More

I came across an interesting article today from ScienceBlog on a couple of new research tools aimed at helping developers find what they're looking for in APIs. The tools have ... Read More

The Mac users on Leopard, who have installed the recent Mac OS X 10.5.7 update, will now find the Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 appearing in ... Read More

This week's term goes hand in hand with the operators that have been the focus of the past few weeks. Expressions are essential building blocks of any Java program. They ... Read More

Another day, another blogging contest. If you have plans to blog about the JavaOne technical sessions, why not download JavaFX v1.2 and blog about that too? Sun are running a ... Read More

Now that JavaOne has finished for another year, I've been looking to see how much information is online about the technical sessions. On the homepage of the official JavaOne site ... Read More

The ternary operator "?:" earns its name because it's the only operator to take three operands. It is a conditional operator that provides a shorter syntax for the if..then..else statement. ... Read More

Just to wrap up the general sessions available to view from day three and four of JavaOne: Software + Services: The Next Application Platform – Microsoft talk about collaborating with ... Read More

Day two of JavaOne brings some more general sessions you can view: Being Unique with Sony Ericsson – Discussions about Ericsson's use of the Java Mobile Edition and future possibilities ... Read More

Even if you couldn't go to JavaOne, there is still the opportunity to catch up with what's been happening at the general sessions by watching the video replays. From day ... Read More

A new version of the JavaFX SDK has just been released and is available at the usual download page. Looking at the release notes for v1.2 it should be noted ... Read More