Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

Both Java and Ruby have relatively sophisticated exception handling built-in to the respective languages. Their exception handling techniques have many similarities, but also have some differences in ...