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Java Community Process - Getting Ready to Choose the Year's Best Every year the process of choosing the community's best starts with nominations in five categories: Member of the Year, Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition, Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java M... May. 29, 2007  Reads: 7,595

Browser Wars and Swing on the Desktop The WebRenderer Swing Edition changes the face of Java Swing applications and the rendering of Web content within Java. Before we jump into that, let's take a look back at Web content display in Java desktop applications including... May. 29, 2007  Reads: 16,182  Replies: 1

Evaluating Options for Persisting Java Objects We live in a relational world - which is too bad since we develop with objects. Since most non-trivial applications require information to be persisted and retrieved in what is generically called a database, we need to find efficien... Jun. 2, 2007  Reads: 19,136  Replies: 2

Flow Analysis: Static Analysis on Steroids Building a robust regression suite is the best way to identify poorly implemented requirements, and performing negative testing is the best way to identify confused user errors. However, finding missing requirements is difficult b... May. 28, 2007  Reads: 9,340  Replies: 1

Java Feature — The Holy Grail of Database Independence The hope of using any persistence framework is absolute database independence. Database independence means that you can focus on your job as an application developer and not a DBA. However, no framework can fully make this claim. ... May. 23, 2007  Reads: 16,487  Replies: 1

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width! Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width' was the title of a British TV sitcom in the late 60's (yes, I really am that old), which has nothing to do with Java software development. Or does it? The more I talk to people about the issue... May. 18, 2007  Reads: 7,540

Intelligent GUIs Should Require No Thought to Operate In Bernard J. Baar's book 'A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness,' he describes the brain as having a single conscious area that can be occupied by one thought at a time. The unconscious part of the brain stores memories and experienc... Jun. 2, 2007  Reads: 12,309