If you compare Java with what C is good at -- doing low-level, time-critical, machine-dependent code -- Java loses. If you compare Java with C at what Java does best -- application software with a ...

This article examines three sides of Java exception handling, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and offer some tips you can use along the way. Michael C. Daconta is the director of Web and ...

Writing succinct and elegant JDBC code can be difficult. You have to create a few different objects and catch numerous checked exceptions, even if you can't reasonably recover from them. Closing a ...

whereas the JRE is a package of tools for running Java code. The JRE can be used as a standalone component to simply run Java programs, but it’s also part of the JDK. The JDK requires a JRE ...