There are many pitfalls to be avoided when creating a beautiful Java API. Effective API development means avoiding these traps and solving real problems.

JSR-353, the Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P), has reached final approval ballot this month. JSON-P (similar to JAXP) consists of a Streaming API (similar to StAX) and an Object Model API ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. This article explains the concepts behind ...

This can create a headache as enterprises move to cloud platforms, said Alex Kosowski, principal member of the Oracle technical staff and one of the leads on the new Java EE security API (JSR 375), a ...

Newer JVM-compatible languages like Scala, Groovy, and JRuby are better suited to creating internal DSLs than the Java language itself. Find out why in this final article in Venkat Subramaniam's ...