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In of this three-part series introducing design patterns, I referred to Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Design. This classic was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph ...

The Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology is a key part of both the Java 2 Platform's Standard Edition (J2SE) 5 and Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Support for this standard is now required in ...

The Observable design pattern is used in many important Java APIs. One well-known example is a JButton that uses the ActionListener API to execute an action. In this example, we have an ActionListener ...