Writing reusable code is a vital skill for every software developer, and every engineer must know how to maximize code reuse. Nowadays, developers often use the excuse that there is no need to ...

Another way to completely eliminate the use of plain text passwords in a secure Java code base is to use some type of password service. WebSphere provides a service called Credential Vault. At runtime ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

While PMD works on source code, the FindBugs tool looks for code smells in compiled Java code. This Java static code analysis tool sifts through bytecode and finds sources of potential errors and ...

Java 7u21 affects Java 7u17 and earlier, Java 6u43 and earlier and Java 5u41 and earlier, Oracle said. The company also added additional code-signing and warnings to users that an applet could be ...