JNA lets you access native code from Java while avoiding C and the Java Native Interface. I’ll start with a quick introduction to JNA and the software required to run the examples in this article.

Interested in Java functional programming? The first place you need to start, especially if you use the Streams API, is with this Java Function interface example.

Take a walk on the client side with Qt Jambi -- an alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces.