Java is an excellent general-purpose programming language. So, what is wrong with just using Java for everything? Why use any other language? Java is far from slow. It is orders-of-magnitude faster ...

I've talked here before about SpringSource, which is interesting to me primarly because of what it represents a reaction to: namely that Java Enterprise Edition code is hard, and complex, and ...

Java’s sun.misc.Unsafe class has been in use since 2002. It provides essential low-level methods that framework developers use to deliver otherwise unobtainable features and performance. Unfortunately ...