The year 2006 was a great
year for community
technology development
across the board. At the
JCP, Spec Leads, Expert
Groups members, observers
and Executive Committee
members worked together
to take Java standards to
the next level ...
I am always in awe of
people who develop
hardware. They're the
real engineers of our
profession, the ones
pushing forward the
speeds at which things
work, their size, and
their connectivity. For
example, in 2005 there
were more co...
The year 2006 in which
YouTube became culturally
ubiquitous, Flash video
became the de facto
Internet video standard
of the Web, Microsoft
beta-launched Vista, and
the Wii entered our lives
- was also memorable for
one or two other ...
In an article in the
October edition of the
FTP Webzine 'Upside'
Peter Varhol laments the
trend toward
per-developer metrics in
the software development
process. 'Individual
developer data is stored
and available to be
manipulated...
Even experienced Java Web
developers are often
surprised by how big a
leap it is to develop a
portal. The simple, slick
interface that end users
see belies the deep power
and complexity provided
by commercial products
like BEA WebLo...
Don't you love looking at
a good piece of code? I'm
talking about the kind of
code where the design is
so sound that the code
practically wrote itself,
where there were no nasty
surprises at
implementation, where it
was 100% feature...
Much of the work
surrounding the design
and development of
enterprise applications
involves decisions about
how to coordinate the
flow of persistent data.
This includes when and
where to cache data, when
to apply it to a
persisten...
WebLogic Server 9.x
provides database
connectivity with data
sources. A data source is
a pool of database
connections from which a
connection can be
obtained. A data source
can be configured
separately or as a
multi-datasource. A ...
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
interes...
Service Component
Architecture (SCA) is a
simple model for creating
service-oriented
applications. This
article highlights the
benefits of SCA and
introduces SCA concepts
by walking through an
example. The example has
been develop...
Even for many seasoned
developers, Swing code
can be notoriously
difficult to organize.
Where is the right place
to put parsing and
validation logic? How do
you prevent those
threading issues that
cause lockups or
repainting gli...
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Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
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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