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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Most developers have their own sets of frequently used utility functions, but they aren't properly organized or documented. The Commons Lang project's goal is to provide a uniform, tested, and ...

Java's a great language to work with, for a lot of reasons. One of the strongest is its ecosystem -- if you need a library to do something, there's a good chance that someone else published a library ...