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A Brand New Façade Some trends you just don't see coming, like the return of bell-bottom pants. They are mysterious and leave you wondering what people can possibly be thinking about. Other trends are much more comprehensible and when they start to ... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 9,742

"Hello Internet!" When Edison invented electric lighting, his company was simultaneously selling generators, switches and lightbulbs. At the time he invented it, there was no preexisting infrastructure for electricity, so he had to sell his custome... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 7,058

Servlet to Servlet Communication Java has brought much in the way of programming advancement within easy reach of developers. Powerful constructs such as multithreading and advance communication are now relatively easy for you to use in your programs. Java has also... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 16,715  Replies: 1

NetRexx Programming for the JVM This article is Part 3 of an interactive series that discusses the many languages that compile and/or run on the Java platform. Java Developer's Journal invites you to vote for your favorite non-Java programming language in the JD... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 20,239

Keeping Up with OMG OMG members met in Denver, Colorado, the week of March 6-10, 2000. In this column I'll summarize as many of the various efforts that progressed as space permits. May. 1, 2000  Reads: 7,941

Presentation Logic and EJBs With the proliferation of Java-based application servers at the core of today's Web applications, the preferred Web architecture that has emerged places Java in the middle tier, gathering data from myriad sources, and HTML present... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 8,787

Interview with Randy Hietter JDJ: Randy, tell us a little bit about Persistence. Hietter: Well, Persistence Software is an EJB application server vendor company. We actually got started back in 1991 building object-relational mapping tools. Our founders saw ... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 7,508

Developing Coarse Grained Business Components Discussion groups have recently been abuzz with talk of "coarse-grained entity beans" - a slight misnomer deriving, I suspect, from the addition of mandatory entity beans in EJB 1.1. This month I'll examine the finer poi... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 9,950

Team Programming with VisualAge Java As the software development process becomes ever more complex, end users demand more and more functionality in less and less time. Companies are extending their business applications to run on both intranets and the Internet, and ... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 7,953

Product Review: InstallShield Java Edition 3.0 Having been involved in a fair number of development projects over the years, I've often wondered what goes on during the process of setting up and configuring installation programs using authoring tools such as InstallShield. The... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 11,790

Interview with Doug Carrier JDJ: Would you tell us a little about the recently released NuMega DevPartner 2.0 Java Edition? O'Brien: DevPartner Java Edition is a suite of productivity tools created to help developers build reliable, high-performance appl... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 8,118

SQL Embedded in Java: Part 1 Starting Out If you know SQL and Java, and you want to learn SQLJ, this series of articles is for you! I'm going to introduce SQLJ, the standard for embedding database SQL statements in Java programs. You may be familiar with JDBC, an API for... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 9,896  Replies: 1

Getting Ourselves on the Application Fast Track The convergence of information technology (IT) and business strategy has become an increasingly critical competitive factor for most businesses. Lincoln Re came to this realization several years ago when we embarked on transformin... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 8,579

Using XML for JMS Messaging in E-Commerce XML has become the standard format for B2B data exchange. To actually implement such exchanges, however, the programmer must provide data transport and translation services. Java-based messaging provides an ideal transport for XML... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 9,609

You Certified? Today marks the beginning of British summer time. Hurrah! I prefer the winter myself, but having experienced the extreme temperatures of New York on a January weekend, I have to reevaluate my climate preferences. Now that the office... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 7,212

Implementing Business Rules in Java Twenty years after it first made waves, rule-based technology is making a comeback. Java developers with an eye on the e-commerce market are becoming aware of how integrating business rules and objects in Java can help expand Java i... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 12,894

Interview...with Mike Cowlishaw R. Hightower: Have you considered an open- source license? M. Cowlishaw: Until recently the licensing issues seemed something of a minefield with so many different ideas on what open source should be. Also, my translator/compiler... May. 1, 2000  Reads: 13,461