Let’s imagine a situation where we want to write a pure Java application that must download files from a remote computer running an FTP server. We also want to filter downloads on the basis of remote ...

Java has been a top-ranked programming language for years, thanks in part to an enormous set of libraries—both bundled with the software and available free in open source repositories—that developers ...

Just about every developer at some point has used a library or a component developed by someone else. Just about every developer at some point has also gotten frustrated with the library to the point ...

Apache Commons IO provides a set of utilities for working with the file system that can be helpful in preventing path traversal vulnerabilities. The FilenameUtils class contains methods for ...

When a software lead sets out to build a new enterprise application, they must decide which set of libraries and frameworks they want to use. This begs an obvious question: What is the difference ...

A vulnerability originating from a commonly used Java library is affecting a broad range of commercial and custom software across global networks, according to Foxglove Security. As such, it will be ...

Building scalable, distributed and reliable systems is trivial in Erlang. This can be a hard pill to swallow for many enterprise developers. Erlang is a dynamically typed functional language and Java ...