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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Software developers in the Java space have a long history of creating composite software applications, packaging those applications within archive files and then deploying those archives to a ...