Today's trend is to
integrate existing
systems in a standard way
to make disparate
implementations
interoperate. Web
Services and XML came
along with the ability to
provide a standard
communication interface
between these systems,...
The new EJB 3.0
specification supports
some notion of dependency
injection via
annotations. As an avid
Spring user, I'm used to
configuring fine-grained
beans with Spring bean
factories and XML. How
does EJB 3.0 compare?
More impo...
J2EE applications of late
have become weight
conscious. The combined
burden of EJBs and
coarse-grained component
design has given the term
test driven design a new
meaning: technology
driven design!
Fortunately a host of
lightweig...
The novel A Deepness in
the Sky by Vernor Vinge
is set in the distant
future. The character
Pham Nuwen is responsible
for maintaining software
whose components are
thousands of years old.
Today, however, it's
difficult to imagine
...
Web sites were originally
static. Later dynamic
content came about
through CGI scripts
paving the way for the
first true Web
applications. Since HTTP
was entirely stateless,
it became necessary to
invent ways for requests
to be li...
This past year the J2EE
1.4 specification enjoyed
increased adoption by the
industry, with most major
application server
vendors having released
their J2EE 1.4 products
and more and more
enterprises upgrading
their application serve...
Your manager Frank
started the meeting by
saying that the budget
for the new project had
been approved, but half
of the project will be
outsourced to a great
team from overseas. Can
you imagine, their rates
for Java programmers can ...
Every year for the past
10 years, SYS-CON Media's
'Readers' Choice Awards'
have given the multiple
constituencies we serve -
developers, architects,
IT managers, vendors - a
chance to exercise their
democratic rights, not
just throu...
I have just finished
reviewing the book Open
Source Development Tools
for Java, which provides
excellent coverage of
such topics as log4J,
CVS, Ant, and JUnit.
There is a chapter on UML
tools though in which the
author almost apolog...
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This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi