COMMENTARY--Sun Microsystems firmly established itself as an innovator when it introduced its groundbreaking programming platform, Java, seven years ago. Java was a direct assault on the company's ...

Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own ...

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...