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 ...

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 ...

The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has just announced an update of more than 100 routines in the NAG Library for Java. This 24th release of what may be the largest collection of mathematical and ...

New product line provides a catalog of the 20,000 most popular Java projects with end-to-end integrity, furthering Chainguard's mission to be the safe source for open source "Developers need a better ...

Java's a great language to work with, for a lot of reasons. One of the strongest is its ecosystem -- if you need a library to do something, there's a good chance that someone else published a library ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using the Mirth Connect Java based HL7 appliance I need to render a RTF to a PDF I receive base64 RTF and would like to make base64 PDF. There are ways to use Open Office on a normal server but as ...