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Recent Articles

  • Java Puzzle: unreachable statement

    This is an interesting puzzle to test our understanding on java compiler. What happens when we compile below code blocks? CODE A: public voi ...

    October 9th, 2012

  • Web Service Introduction Tutorial

    Web service is a system that enables applications to communicate with an API. Web service helps to expose business logic through an API inte ...

    October 6th, 2012

  • Android Activity

    Activity is an Android component that is created as a virtual box. User interface has to be designed on top of this box to allow user to int ...

    October 2nd, 2012

  • Why Multiple Inheritance is Not Supported in Java

    In an white paper titled “Java: an Overview” by James Gosling in February 1995 gives an idea on why multiple inheritance is not ...

    September 24th, 2012

  • Why Android?

    Occasionally I take same time out from our regular routine and talk javapapers meta information and this is one such article. I have started ...

    September 21st, 2012

  • Android Notifications

    In this tutorial we shall learn about different types of notifications in android. Following are the three types of android notifications, T ...

    September 20th, 2012

  • OS Processes using Java ProcessBuilder

    This tutorial serves as ProcessBuilder feature introduction. For some need, I was attempting to print OS environment variables using java. G ...

    September 16th, 2012

  • How to Take Screen Shot in Android?

    Taking screen shot in a mobile is so easy. Just hold the home and power button together for a second. This will grab the current screen as i ...

    September 14th, 2012

  • Spring Annotation Based Controllers

    Spring 2.5 introduced support for annotation based MVC controllers. @RequestMapping, @RequestParam, @ModelAttribute are some of the annotati ...

    September 11th, 2012

  • Get User Input in Android

    I have written an Android Hello World tutorial some time back. Wouldn’t it be nice if we add some simple user interaction to it. As si ...

    September 5th, 2012