First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

Web developers are plagued by the inconsistent browser rendering of HTML and JavaScript, yet most continue to use HTML forms to build GUI front-ends. In this article returning JavaWorld contributor Dr ...

Java applets fuelled Java’s initial growth. The ability to download code over the network and run it on a variety of desktops offering a rich user interaction proved quite compelling. However, Java’s ...

In the first two installments of this article, we looked first at Apple’s proprietary programming environments for Mac OS X – Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa – and then at its cross-platform Unix layer. In ...

I wrote a pair of apps, one a server and one a client, and they were free-standing java programs. They work seamlessly, only now we want to run the client from behind a firewall, and it's not working.

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...