I wasn't sure if I should post this here or in the Programming forum, but I'm really interested in a Java guide for beginners that's heavily oriented towards OS X and the tools for this OS. I've found ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster". In it, he said that precious time and brainpower ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

Dennis Byron submits: Sun (JAVA) ponied up some real money this week to join the Object Management Group [OMG]-administered SOA (service oriented architecture) Consortium. Other sponsors include Cisco ...

BEA Systems on Monday will launch a service intended to help Java programmers better handle XML documents. The free service, available from BEA's developer Web site, is based on XML Beans, software ...