How to execute a command prompt command & view output in Java
The basic part is very easy. To do this, we will use the Runtime’s exec method. The code would be like: The command (I’ve used “ping localhost” ) can be anything that your command...
Java Tutorials, Tips & Tricks
Inspect your code in Eclipse using Eclipse Scrapbook feature
The java IDEs (eclipse, IRAD etc) contribute a scrapbook facility that can be used to try and evaluate Java expressions (such as code snippets). Java scrapbook errors are shown in the editor. Snippets are...
Getting JVM heap size, used memory, total memory using Java Runtime
Reading runtime information about Java is useful sometime when your application is struggling in getting resources. System Memory is one of the main resource that an application developer has to consider while managing the...
Varargs in Java: Variable argument method in Java 5
I think I am late for writing about varargs. The feature of variable argument has been added in Java 5 since its launch. Still I will write something about varargs. varargs has been implemented...
20 very useful Java code snippets for Java Developers
Following are few very useful Java code snippets for Java developers. Few of them are written by me and few are taken from other code reference. Feel free to comment about the code and...
Introduction to Apache Maven: A build framework & build automation tool
For a quite while I had been using Ant build tool for building my Java projects. Since few days I have been switching to Apache Maven, an open source build framework that can be...
Reading/Parsing RSS feed using ROME
ROME is an open source tool to parse, generate and publish RSS and Atom feeds. Using Rome you can parse the available RSS and Atom feeds. Without bothering about format and version of RSS...
Parsing / Reading XML file in Java.
While working on a small requirement, I had to write a small piece of code that can parse an XML file in Java. Although there are number of libraries available in Java which does...
HTTP Proxy setting in Java. Setting up proxy.
Working behind a proxy and writing network related code has always been boring for me. Just because everytime I had to connect to Internet and get some data, I had to use Proxy settings....
Google Android ADT, SDK and Eclipse IDE integration on Linux
This tutorial is going to be five minute long procedure which will show you how to add Google Android development tools (ADT) plugin into your Eclipse IDE. This tutorial uses Eclipse 3.3.2 europa that...