How to keep checking if port is open, by issuing socket connects
I recently need to check if a particular application is online and listening on a particular set of ports. I figured that the best way to do this was to peri...
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Looping in Java, a brief look at the various loops and how they can be applied
One of the great features of any programming language is the ability to repeat blocks of code, sometimes indefinately, sometimes until a certain condition is...
Java; the for-each loop, perfect for fondling collections and arrays
The for loop is great, but is it really that nice when you want to iterate over an array or collection? You’d have to do something like the following :
The do-while loop, always executes at least once…
As I’ve covered in a previous post regarding the while loop, the do-while, often refered to as the do loop is very similar. Lets have a look at the psuedo co...
Using while loops, for when you do not know how long the piece of string is
Just another bitesize SCJP post here, looking at the while loop in Java.