In this article, we will show how to create a cross-desktop kiosk application that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and displays modern web content using Java Swing GUI Toolkit and our library based on the Chromium engine—JxBrowser.
Some of us at DZone develop scientific/engineering/research code. And to people like us, an elegant and simple mathematical function can be a powerful tool. We might not use it today but it's nice to have in the toolbox!
Too many programmers think SQL is a bit of a beast. It is one of the few declarative languages out there, and as such, behaves in an entirely different way from imperative, object-oriented, or even functional languages (although, some say that SQL is also somewhat functional).