Vol. 12 Iss: 8

Doubtful Diagrams and Far Out Figures of Web 2.0
In a recent presentation I attended, the speaker warmed up with a couple of bulleted lists that outlined the agenda of the session before moving onto his third slide that was clearly many days, work of stitching together powerpoint glyphs and figures in a sort of three dimensional loop...
Sep. 11, 2007 Reads: 17,173 Replies: 1
Developing Rich Internet Applications Using Swing
The Java development platform always provides limited support for application development based on a graphical user interface, an area where more traditional languages and integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Visual Basic or Delphi have based their success.
Sep. 5, 2007 Reads: 33,982
Estival JSRs
It's been busy at the JCP for Spec Leads, Expert Groups, and Executive Committees over the summer. Quite a number of new proposals were submitted and were approved to be developed as JSRs; even more moved to new development stages, drawing closer to the finish line. And, I might add, t...
Sep. 1, 2007 Reads: 9,795
An Introduction to Maven - Part III
In the parts 1 and 2 of this article, we demonstrated how to download and install Maven 2, how to install the Maven 2 plugin for Eclipse, and how to go about setting up a project directory structure using Maven 2. We used a simple use case for displaying employee details on the Web giv...
Sep. 1, 2007 Reads: 22,612 Replies: 6
Multi-Core and Massively Parallel Processors
As software developers we have enjoyed a long trend of consistent performance improvement from processor technology. In fact, for the last 20 years processor performance has consistently doubled about every two years or so. What would happen in a world where these performance improvem...
Aug. 27, 2007 Reads: 15,934 Replies: 1
It's a Multi-Core World: Let the Data Flow
The multi-core buzz is everywhere. Pick up a newspaper and the local electronics mega-store is advertising multi-core desktops and laptops to the consumer. Interesting, but what does it mean to the everyday Java programmer? Maybe nothing. If you live in the application server world wri...
Aug. 26, 2007 Reads: 10,005

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	Turkish Java Needs Special Brewing By Joe Winchester James Nelson wrote: Thanks for the posting, which we are hoping will solve our software issue with two Turkish clients. This may be four years out of date, but please correct the code example, which has many nonsensical errors (two identical operations on anotherUserVisibleString, use of String tag without later reuse,...
	WSRP Really Works! By Matt Silver Ambuj wrote: Hi Matt, I have some problem with retrieving the producer, when i am entering the wsdl of my service(https) which is in WSRP and hosted on IIS, then its saying unable to retrieve producer. And if i try the same in IE its getting the wsdl, now can you tell me where i am missing the configuration...
	Introduction to Acegi By David Hardwick Aymen wrote: I'd like to think you for this article, good and simple! While reading, I was wondering how could we manage 'Roles'? Can we add meaning to roles ? And build them based on rights (MANAGER_ROLE=READ, WRITE, DELETE ...
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	Cloud Computing - Game Changing? By Raj Sheelvant Bruce Arnold wrote: Kudos to the Cloud Crowd for Re-Inventing the Wheel! One thing 30 years in the IT industry has taught me is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Another is that the only memory we seem to access is short-term. A third is that techno-marketeers rely on that, so they can put...