AWT: The idea was to wrap the native GUI widgets of the various operating systems with a platform-independent Java API called Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). Only common widgets such as text field, text area, check box, radio button, list, and push...

With JDK 1.2, Sun introducted the Java Collection Framework, a cool API for data-structures in Java. At the base of the heirarchy were collection interfaces like:List: A collection that is ordered and whose members can be accessed by index. A list...

The Reference API in Java can leave any sane person fully confused !!!..I tried to make sense of what the different types of references are and what purpose do they solve.I am still not crystal clear about the usability of all these references, but I...

A lot of "i18N" programs only have to deal with "strings" that need to be localized. For e.g. labels, other text etc.But what if U need a localized object ?..i.e a double object, a JPEG object etc.There is a special class in Java "ListResourceBundle"...

Does JSF require JSP? No, it does not. As a matter of fact, JSF was written to be render-technology neutral. This means you can use it with all sorts of non-JSP technology, including XML-based languages like XUL and templating systems like Velocity....