A resource is a file situated somewhere in the class path. It can be a file in a package folder, in the classes folder or in a jar file. Resources are usually needed at runtime and they can be properties files, images and so on. The ClassLoader and Class classes provide methods to find the [...]
In Java 6 a better way of interacting with the command prompt was introduced, the java.io.Console class. Together with the utility class java.util.Scanner introduced in Java 5 this new API can be used to develop more advanced Java console applications.
Many times it is useful to be able to get programmatically information about the network interfaces present on a host. Java standard library include a number of classes designed to provide access to this information. The most important is java.net.NetworkInterface which suffered a major face lifting in Java 6.
Due to a number of differences between various platforms it is very difficult to present system specific information in a consistent manner. When getting closer to system specific details, like file system information, a Java programmer has to become aware of the operating system hosting his program in order to make sense of the information [...]
Introduced in Java 6 is the option of displaying a splash screen when an application starts. The splash image file can be specified on the command line with the new splash option -splash:splash.jpg or in the manifest of a jar file with the SplashScreen-Image option.
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