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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The big news in the July 2022 update to Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code extensions is that they all now fully support the Lombok library. Project Lombok is designed to reduce boilerplate code, ...

A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the widely used Java logging library Apache Log4j is easy to exploit and enables attackers to gain full control of affected servers. Tracked as ...

JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop ...