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 ...

The event loop pattern always fascinated me. I found it interesting, useful, and compatible with object-oriented programming. A lot of us know it thanks to Node.js. For some reason, recently, I have ...

Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM or source code disks. Originally I was planning to cover double-buffering in this month’s column. I started writing a cool ...

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 ...

We use the Java wrapper with opentelemetry-lambda-layer.zip and the opt/otel-handler. The lambda is triggered via AWS event bridge whenever a new object is created in an S3 bucket. The event is ...