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 ...

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 ...

Securing the modern software development lifecycle requires locking down every layer of the stack, including the operating system (OS), runtime environment, language libraries, and application code.

Proposed JEP 540 would bring lightweight JSON support to the JDK while complementing, rather than replacing, established libraries.

Marco Dahms has been working as a software architect for 18 years. His areas of expertise include clean code, continuous integration, cloud computing, distributed architectures, and Kubernetes. Unit ...

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 ...