Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

Have you ever wondered how to open a JSON file? Probably not. However, for those who do, chances are you’ve tried everything under the sun but still cannot find a way to gain access to the data inside ...

A HAR file is a JSON archive file format that stores browsing data across multiple browsers. It works by storing a data session between the client and server. In other words, a HAR file is used to ...

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...

Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular choice for exchanging documents over the Internet, but how do you access and present PDF files in your Java applications? Jeff Friesen introduces ...

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available. What is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open-source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...