Sometimes situations arise where you must replace or patch an application class. In this article, an excerpt from Covert Java, Alex Kalinovsky explains what circumstances warrant such an approach ...

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 ...

In Java, a shared library is files used by multiple applications. Each shared library consists of a symbolic name, a Java classpath, and a native path for loading Java Native Interface (JNI ...

Using an external library in Java (Apache Commons and Eclipse) mcmnky Jul 19, 2014 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

As discussed in my previous JavaWorld article “Java FTP Client Libraries Reviewed” (April 2003), FTP support in the JDK does not fully implement the FTP specification (Request for Comments 959 ...

Every modern enterprise application relies on external libraries and third-party software. Weigh these 7 criteria to choose a Java library for your project.

Researchers have built proof-of-concept exploits for an unpatched unserialize vulnerability in Apache Commons Collections, a library used in most Java rollouts.

A new actively exploited vulnerability has been discovered that can be used against a number of services, including Apple's iCloud, Valve's Steam, Microsoft's Minecraft, and more.

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

A JVM is distributed along with Java Class Library, a set of standard class libraries (in Java bytecode) that implement the Java Application programming interface (API).