As discussed in my previous JavaWorld article “Java FTP Client Libraries Reviewed” (April 2003), FTP support in the JDK does not fully implement the FTP specification (Request for Comments 959). For ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Guillemet, Chief Technology Officer at Ledger, emphasized the gravity of the situation, stating, "There’s a large-scale supply chain attack in progress: the NPM account of a reputable ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today announced Chainguard Libraries, a new product line that offers secure language libraries for Java built directly from source in ...

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 ...

I'm trying to use one of the Apache Commons libraries (Math 3.3) in Java with Eclipse. (JDK 1.7 and Eclipse 3/JDT 3.7) And I can't get away from NoClassDefFoundError ...

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 ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...