JavaFX is a rapidly maturing technology, but its capabilities are still limited. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces you to JFXtras, utilities and add-ons that ...

Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular choice for exchanging documents over the Internet, but how do you access and present PDF files in your Java applications? Jeff Friesen introduces ...

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Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository, which the company administers for ...

The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...