I know there's no practical purpose to this it's entirely theoretical. and I know a jar file uses the zip format. But how does one create a jar file without a manifest file. (I don't mean creating a ...

You understand the basics of domain-specific languages and now you’re ready to begin creating and refining them for your projects. In this third article in his series Venkat Subramaniam shows you how ...

Since I have done most of my coding for classes (and almost exclusively in Java), I have always just run my programs through the compiler and never had to worry about actually setting it up to run on ...

If you’ve ever written a makefile or designed a Web page with CSS, you’ve already encountered a DSL, or domain-specific language. DSLs are small, expressive programming languages custom designed for ...