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February 8th, 2006 Java is the No. 1 language on planet earth, high performing and very easy to use.

January 10th, 2004 On the old debate - C# versus Java

September 8th, 2005 GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

April 4th, 2006 Complete and submit a form ( permission to enroll you in the Sun Developer Network (SDN) ) to receive free NetBeans worldTour CD that includes the NetBeans IDE 5.0 , NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0, NetBeans Profiler 5.0 and Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Platform Edition. The NetBeans worldTour CD will be published and updated as major enhancements and new releases become available.

March 15th, 2005 J2SE stands for Java 2 Standard Edition. The 2 stands for version 2 of the platform.

April 19th, 2006 The Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Release 4 update, issued Monday, fixes a vulnerability in Java Web Start. An application, exploiting the vulnerability, may grant itself permissions to read and write local files that are accessible to the user running the Java Web Start application.

August 23rd, 2008 First tell me what is the best way to concatenate large number of String objects? Is it a + b? Most Java developers know not to use a + b (+ operator) because of huge performance problems, they use StringBuffer instead. In fact I did some tests in the past which confirms this folklore.

February 17th, 2006 Java SE 6 Beta offers the first feature complete version of next major release of the Java SE platform. Sun expects to ship the final release of Java SE 6 in the fall of 2006.

August 26th, 2007 Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.

January 12th, 2004 Question? Amitava Ghosh wrote at caljug: Dear all, I am trying to call an executable(written in C++) inside a java code through a batch file(where the parameters for the C++ executable are stored). When I am using Process p = Runtime.getRunTime().exec("cppexe.bat") it is working fine but when I am using start to run the batch process in a new window as in Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("start cppexe.bat") I am getting an IOException Cannot create process etc etc Answer: start is a command of cmd.exe (under Windows NT/2000 etc.).

November 26th, 2005 Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 6.0 version (Mustang) lets you access the system tray through two classes in the java.awt package: SystemTray and TrayIcon. These classes give you the ability to add graphics, popup menus, and floating tip functionality to the system tray.

May 7th, 2008 Sun revealed the following statistics about Java at JavaOne 2008: 1. 90% of Personal Computers on Internet have Java 2.

December 25th, 2004 I have put a new blog which lists hot jobs postings associated with software & bioinformatics industry, job leads available by word-of-mouth, mailings lists of alumni associations, java architects, java user groups, vc mailings lists etc. In other words postings, often for high profile jobs, which are normally accessible to inner circle only.

September 28th, 2009 I never thought I would have to write this article. Downloading Java was the simplest thing possible.

February 16th, 2004 Few Gripes on Java.blogs: After few days with java.blogs I realized I don't want a few things. For example I am not interested in knowing anything about IDEA releases.