I am developing a small desktop application using Java(ofcourse…).
Its a very long time that i had my hands on Swing.
First thing was to choose an IDE that will make the job more easier and this time i wanted to try
different IDE(i use Eclipse at work and at home too…), so i ended up with NetBeans.
NetBeans [...]

… though i have a reason to choose Resin over Tomcat , i wanted to try a new web server and learn to use (It may help me in future.)
so here is the steps
Prerequisite: JDK 5.0 or later version.(i didn try with 1.4 , so i am not sure.)
1.Download Resin from Caucho [...]

I am planning to host a website very soon.Details of the website will be posted later.
Core Servlets and JSP wil be used to build the website because my website is gonna be a very simple one that does a very simple work and using frameworks like Struts, Spring is pointless.
I want to keep the code [...]

Media support, especially when it comes to video, has always been a huge weak spot for Java on the desktop. But finally, Sun is going to do something about that. Java Media Components, or JMC, is scheduled to ship with Java 7.
One of the key components of JMC is that it will support embedding native [...]

Whenever i write code for database connection , i use to wonder why i have to load a jdbc driver with Class.forName(<jdbcDriverName>). why shouldn the api do this for us , coz its the common thing everyone does.
Finally JDBC 4.0 helped…
if JDBC 4.0 is used , we need not load the JDBC driver , [...]

I didnt even have a peek view on JavaEE 5Â and the guys in Sun Microsystems has raised a JSR in JCP for JavaEE 6.
want to know more about JavaEE6 click here