The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a ...

If you know how to work with dates in Java, it is relatively easy to learn to work with time. This tutorial shows you how to bridge that learning gap. Robert Nielsen also shows you how to use Java ...

Property files let you reconfigure your Java application without recompiling. Typically, however, you need to restart your application to load the new properties. This tip shows you how to load ...

ThreeTen, the reference implementation of JSR 310 Date and Time API, is now included in JDK 8 build 75. The Java Time API for JDK 8 is under the package java.time, moving away from the javax.time ...

So I inherited this bit of Java code and it has what I will call a Watchdog Timer.It is set for like 10 minutes and if nothing good happens in 10 minutes it runs some cleanup code.Now when ever ...

Java has been one of the top two programming languages for the past 10 years. How has it stood the test of time? Good design and continuous innovation have a lot to do with it.