By Parameswaran Seshan  Applications that have high performance as a quality goal would motivate a programmer to design and build them as multithreaded apps. The Java programming environment provides for parallel execution of logic by using threads. However, this is at a lower level and provides limited capab... Oct. 16, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 2,133 |
By Maha Sengottiyan  An applet, a Java program that runs in a browser, often has to access the client resources. However, the security manager prevents an applet from accessing client resources. To access client resources, the applet has to have the proper permission. With this permission the applet can th... Aug. 28, 2008 06:30 PM Reads: 1,621 |
By Adrian Marriott  Commercial systems are developed with a huge range of performance requirements and we are concerned in this article with the small number of systems where absolute maximum performance is demanded either in terms of execution speed or available memory. We'll discuss the role of bespoke ... Aug. 20, 2008 03:24 PM Reads: 2,236 |
By Rod Cope  Open source software, while not synonymous with Java, may often be seamlessly integrated with Java code to produce a versatile synthesis that makes developers' lives much easier. In recent years, developers have taken some open source dynamic languages, commonly referred to as 'scripti... Jul. 25, 2008 05:15 PM Reads: 3,313 |
By Paul Hohensee  Faced with the demands of mission-critical applications, many enterprise developers have pushed the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to the limit. The most common issue seen in transactional environments is achieving predictable response time or latency - in other words... Jul. 24, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 4,303 |
By Matt Silver  A standard from OASIS called Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is used so portlets can be decoupled from a portal. In part one (JDJ, Volume. 13, issue 3) of this article, we introduced the relevant standards and specifications and then demonstrated WSRP's capabilities by consumin... Jul. 17, 2008 06:00 PM Reads: 2,149 |
By Jonas Jacobi; John Fallows; Ric Smith; Brian Albers  A fast-moving Comet is about to impact the Internet. When it hits, it will wipe away the architecture flaws we have lived with for the past 15 years and allow a new World Wide Web to evolve. This new Web will include applications that are instantly on and always on, applications that a... Jul. 10, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 4,264 |
By Orion Letizi  Commercial open source software has arrived. There have been commercial sponsors of open source projects for a long time, but the recent spate of high-price (for open source, at least) acquisitions of companies with open source products at the core of their business has made a splash i... Jun. 23, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 5,801 |
By Tim Boudreau  Java developers have had a nice ride the last few years. With ferocious competition in the Java tools space, the tools they use have been getting better and better. Where one tool innovates, such as with quick fixes, the competitors quickly duplicate and expand on that innovation. This... Jun. 23, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 5,783 Replies: 1 |
By Max Katz 2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? T... Jun. 20, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 30,930 Replies: 2 |
By Masayuki Otoshi  A lot of rework still happens in projects applying UML techniques because of conflicts and omissions in requirements. To reduce rework, interactive storyboarding is effective, but it seems that projects that use the technique are limited because of the few tools available. To improve t... Jun. 7, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 5,563 Replies: 1 |
By Michael Galpin  If you've been working with Web Services for a long time, chances are you've worked with Apache Axis and that you have an Axis Web Service somewhere in your code base. You probably also know about the many improvements in Axis2, especially around support for the more modern WS-* standa... May. 28, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 4,080 |
By Joe Morrison; Kalani Thielen  Java applications have become steadily harder to understand and maintain in recent years. Object-oriented programming has proven an effective way to develop enterprise applications, but several recent trends are causing a sharp increase in code complexity. One is the increasingly commo... May. 23, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 12,453 |
By Bob Cusick  This is the story of a Mac application developer (okay - it's about two of them) who set out on a quest to find an application development tool based on Java so his boss would let him develop on the Mac platform, which he loved. There was only one catch - he had to find a tool that was... May. 16, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 9,091 Replies: 1 |
By S G Ganesh  Any large Java source base can have insidious and subtle bugs. Every experienced Java programmer knows that finding and fixing these bugs can be difficult and costly. Fortunately, there are a large number of free open source Java tools available that can be used to find and fix defects... May. 16, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 10,125 |
By Java News Desk  JReport and Composite Software announced the companies have partnered to offer a new joint solution: JReport OnDemand Integration. The companies will co-market and co-sell the new reporting solution with out-of-the-box information integration capabilities. Feb. 21, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 16,020 |
By Andrei Iltchenko  One of the things that kept me and my team busy over the past couple of years was starting to support J2EE 1.4 in OptimalJ - a goal that we accomplished with the release of OptimalJ 4.2. Now that this job is complete, it's interesting to look back and ponder the experience and learn fr... Jan. 22, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 10,152 |
By Java News Desk OpenMobile IS has won the Gold Award in the 'Company Management' category of the Free Software Awards 2006. OpenMobileIS is a Java Framework conceived to integrate mobile application developement business. Open Mobile IS Java framework aims to provide all the functionalities and compon... Dec. 12, 2006 11:00 PM Reads: 14,303 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk GigaSpaces Technologies has integrated McObject's Perst open source, object-oriented all-Java embedded database for real-time data management in its massively scaleable distributed application technology. GigaSpaces embeds Perst in version 5.1 of its software, where Perst provides pers... Dec. 12, 2006 10:00 PM Reads: 14,099 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Sun Microsystems, challenged leaders to rethink traditional education models. On the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) campus at a forum titled 'Open For Education,' introduced by Sun's Chairman of the Board of Directors Scott McNealy, the participants discussed how the ris... Sep. 19, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 9,598 |
By Brian Walsh  Ajax(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) means many things to many people. However, one thing is certain: To users it implies a higher level of functionality and an improved experience. To the developer, another certainty follows: More work. The only question is how much work and to what ... Sep. 13, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 29,176 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk  Mentality of programmers depends on a programming language or tool they use. Should they even try to learn what's under the hood in a particular framework? Jul. 27, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 12,205 |
By Java News Desk Sun Microsystems, Inc., maker of NetBeans Mobility Pack, announced the availability of the NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0 for Connected Device Configuration. The Mobility Pack for CDC was designed to bring the many advantages of the Java platform to a broad range of network-connected cons... Apr. 10, 2006 08:30 AM Reads: 16,560 Replies: 4 |
By Java News Desk SlickEdit Inc. announced the release of SlickEdit v11 for Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X platforms. SlickEdit v11 introduces new core editing features that allow power programmers to be more productive by reducing busy-work and repetitive tasks. Apr. 7, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 9,716 Replies: 5 |
By Java News Desk Ping Identity announced the expansion of its PingFederate Integration Kit family to include both Windows Kerberos and Oracle/Oblix COREid. These new Integration Kits join Ping's existing family of adapters for Windows Login, Java and .NET applications, CA eTrust SiteMinder and Salesfor... Mar. 24, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 15,301 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk  Xenos Group announced today the release of Xenos d2e Vision version 2.2 for transforming documents into electronic formats. Designed for rapid and seamless integration with other e-Business applications, this version includes enhancements in its handling of images, color and support fo... Mar. 20, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 11,532 Replies: 4 |
By Java News Desk  Elastic Path Software announced today the successful launch of CoutureCandy, online retailer of designer apparel. CoutureCandy was developed to fill a growing demand for the freshest designer apparel online, without sacrificing the allure, character and personal service distinctive of ... Mar. 20, 2006 09:15 AM Reads: 9,909 Replies: 2 |
By Java News Desk; Search News Desk  Elastic Path Software announced today the general availability of Elastic Path 4.1, an update of its Java-based ecommerce software, enabling marketers to engage in advanced search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns. Mar. 17, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 13,897 Replies: 2 |
By Oracle News Desk  Quest Software announced today version 1.0 of Quest Spotlight on Oracle RAC, the newest extension of Quest Software's patented Spotlight product family. Spotlight on Oracle RAC is the first product available to provide a graphical view on the internal performance of Oracle Real Applic... Mar. 17, 2006 03:15 PM Reads: 11,647 Replies: 2 |
By Java News Desk MetaMatrix announced today a new product, MetaMatrix Query, built for Java application developers. MetaMatrix Query is an embeddable Java distributed query component that streamlines development and maintenance of Java applications that use data from two or more relational databases. W... Mar. 14, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 12,682 Replies: 1 |
By Yakov Fain In the second of a new series, Yakov Fain takes a look at the basics of object orientation and method overloading in Java. Jan. 30, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 58,484 Replies: 1 |
By Yakov Fain Yakov Fain's popular online tutorial series continues. This lesson he discusses the basics of threads, including how to create them, how to get them to step aside, and how to stop them. Jan. 24, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 85,821 Replies: 7 |
By Yakov Fain Yakov Fain, in Lesson 9 of his immensely popular online 'Java Basics' series for JDJ Industry Newsletter, talks about using threads for creating more advanced programs than those already discussed in Lesson 8. He analyzes the role they play in major Internet portals like Yahoo, CNN, or... Jan. 23, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 74,805 Replies: 3 |
By Boris Minkin  We'll build a servlet that will demo some new Java 5.0 features and do some basic tasks like creating a session to track user visits to multiple Web pages. This code can easily be extended to store a user ID in the session that will travel with her as the site is navigated. The value o... Jan. 7, 2006 01:15 PM Reads: 88,801 Replies: 13 |
By Jeremy Geelan The single thing that Adam Kolawa in 2004 (prophetically) said he'd like to change about Java's history is its separation from Microsoft. 'I think it is a shame that the technologies from both sides cannot be used together,' he says, in an exclusive interview with JDJ. 'Java seemed to ... Dec. 3, 2005 03:00 AM Reads: 46,156 Replies: 13 |
By Thomas Smits Developers using Java on clients or in small projects may not believe that there is a fundamental problem with Java's robustness. People working with huge applications and application servers written in Java know about the problem but may doubt that it's possible to build something lik... Oct. 31, 2005 07:15 AM Reads: 71,883 Replies: 18 |
By Xiaozhong Wang  For various reasons, an application may install a security manager. Usually it does so to guard against malicious third-party code either installed or dynamically downloaded at runtime. If the application uses RMI APIs, it's even required by a Java specification that a security manager... Oct. 29, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 25,082 |
By Alex Maclinovsky  In the five years that I have worked in Web solutions practices, a typical business problem has changed from 'we need a new Web site' to 'we need to regain control over our existing sites.' It's not uncommon for large corporations to have hundreds or even thousands of different Web sit... Oct. 26, 2005 04:45 AM Reads: 22,697 |
By Paul Mukherjee  Language tools such as compilers, interpreters, and code generators are a critical part of the software development landscape. Any software project will include several procured tools and very likely several in-house tools. Experience shows that the only guarantee with such tools is ch... Oct. 16, 2005 11:30 AM Reads: 14,458 Replies: 2 |
By Michael Poulin  Application architects have heard about the increased importance of security, but in many cases they really don't know how to approach this issue. In this article, I'll share my experience and define a few basic steps and checkpoints for building application architecture with security ... Oct. 15, 2005 10:30 AM Reads: 17,341 Replies: 1 |