Let’s imagine a situation where we want to write a pure Java application that must download files from a remote computer running an FTP server. We also want to filter downloads on the basis of remote ...

Just about every developer at some point has used a library or a component developed by someone else. Just about every developer at some point has also gotten frustrated with the library to the point ...

Apache Commons IO provides a set of utilities for working with the file system that can be helpful in preventing path traversal vulnerabilities. The FilenameUtils class contains methods for ...

Java has been a top-ranked programming language for years, thanks in part to an enormous set of libraries—both bundled with the software and available free in open source repositories—that developers ...

When a software lead sets out to build a new enterprise application, they must decide which set of libraries and frameworks they want to use. This begs an obvious question: What is the difference ...

Java's a great language to work with, for a lot of reasons. One of the strongest is its ecosystem -- if you need a library to do something, there's a good chance that someone else published a library ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

Using the Mirth Connect Java based HL7 appliance I need to render a RTF to a PDF I receive base64 RTF and would like to make base64 PDF. There are ways to use Open Office on a normal server but as ...