Design patterns are solutions to recurring problems and complexities in software design. Design patterns are categorized as Creational, Structural, or Behavioral. Creational patterns are used to ...

The Adapter Pattern allows incompatible interfaces to communicate. Learn how it works by building an application that calculates prime numbers. The Adapter Pattern is a common software design pattern ...

Apple has agreed, without admitting fault, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that power adapters sold with certain Power PC-based iBook and PowerBook notebooks were defective in that they ...

Here the catch is "achieving reusability by converting an existing interface to a new interface". Let’s say we have a class ‘’A’’ that has getX() method signatures. But the client code uses get ("X") ...

In the last Driving Me Nuts column [see LJ, June 2003], we introduced the kernel driver model framework with an explanation of how the generic bus and driver and device code works. The i2c core was ...

The JavaBeans component model (and thus the Swing component set) is built upon properties and events. Properties have setter and getter methods for working with their values. Events require you to use ...

Iogear today announced the launch of its new Bluetooth 2.0 USB adapters, Class 1 and 2. The adapter allows users to interconnect up to seven Bluetooth devices, and the lower power consumption results ...