ABSTRACT: Security vulnerabilities are a widespread and costly aspect of software engineering. Although tools exist to detect these vulnerabilities, non-machine learning techniques are often rigid and ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

The ability to declare a variable as static for a proc etc so global variables don't have to be used and thus stored in the BSS segment affecting efficiency. Closures could be used, at the expense of ...

1. Define static variables and functions? The variables and functions that are affirmed using the keyword Static are measured as Static Variable and Static Functions. The variables affirmed using ...

In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

The calamitous debate June 27 between the presidential contenders scorched in our collective psyche one of our most despairing moments in recent history, begging the question: Is our political system ...

Abstract: Various static code analysis tools have been designed to automatically detect software faults and security vulnerabilities. This paper aims to 1) conduct an empirical evaluation to assess ...

There are quite a few ways to increment and decrement numeric variables in bash. This post examines the many ways you can do this. When preparing scripts that will run in bash, it’s often critical to ...