After a prolonged break forced on by my busy schedule am back with my series of stones on the basics of socket programming in Java. In my previous post I told you about the bare bones of socket programming. Questions such as, “what are sockets?”, “what protocols will we be using” was dealt with in my previous post, if you haven’t gone through that I suggest you do before reading further on in this article. [...]

The world today has probably more than a good billion computers in operation right now and almost all of them are connected to each other at one time or other. Networking between computers gives an additional dimension to using this amazing creation. Network Programming in Java is really simple; it uses something called sockets to facilitate communication between any two machines. In this series of stone I will focus on network programming in java. To [...]

In my previous stone, I taught you how to create a simple GUI in Java, but that interface did practically nothing. It was merely a skeleton interface which I showed you so that you would learn the basics of creating User Interfaces in Java. In this stone we continue where we left off on the last stone, if you haven’t yet gone through my previous post on the basics of creating a GUI I suggest [...]

Everyone likes the motto, “Keeping it Simple” and the whole idea of a Graphical User Interface or GUI is based on those 3 words. Gone are the days when we use to type complex commands to do tasks, people love the power of doing complex tasks with a simple click and the attraction towards it is fairly obvious.  In this article I will teach you how to create simple User Interfaces using JAVA, so let’s [...]