Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) yesterday announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute ...

In this lesson, you will learn the main concepts behind event-driven programming, which, after object-oriented programming, is another fundamental stepping stone in understanding modern embedded ...

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Internet transactions, business-to-business systems, peer-to-peer processes, and real-time workflows are too dynamic and too complex to be modeled by traditional sequential-processing methods.

Akka is an open source, event-driven middleware project. It is designed to allow developers to write simpler, correct concurrent applications using Actors, STM (software transactional memory) and ...

In today’s dynamic business environment, traditional applications pose significant challenges; hampering agility, scalability, and efficiency — which are all key attributes that organizations strive ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...