Inprise/Borland rolls out JBuilder 4 Inprise/Borland this week announced JBuilder 4, the latest version of its Java-based cross-platform development environment. In this version, the company addressed team development, JavaServer Pages, and support for more application servers, according to Tony de…
Linux port of Release 2 brings the power of Oracle8i’s Java features to the open source platform We’re happy to report that using Linux with Oracle8i Release 2 to support e-business applications is a solid bet. The latest version of…
Learn the value of data validation and why pure Java isn’t the complete solution for handling it As technologies have matured and APIs for Java and other languages have taken more of the burden of low-level coding off your hands…
Discover how XPath and XSLT can significantly reduce the complexity of your Java code when handling XML documents The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is certainly one of the hottest technologies at the moment. While the concept of markup languages is…
Harness the power of entity beans Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) represents a fundamental change in the world of enterprise software. The EJB specification provides the software development community with the component model, maintains interoperability between EJB and non-EJB applications (including non-Java-based…
The HotDispatch marketplace brings Java developers and companies together — worldwide August 28, 2000 — Software developers worldwide are taking advantage of a Web-based exchange by which they sell their expertise in Java, Linux, and other software technologies directly to…
Discover more about creating Java classes In the last Java 101 column, I presented the different primitive types that Java supports. I also discussed variables, their scope and characteristics, and the various places where developers can implement them. In addition,…
Discover a lightweight, noninvasive mechanism for performance monitoring and data caching in RMI and Java IDL applications If you’re developing distributed applications, you probably want to measure the performance characteristics of your applications to find out which remote methods —…
Learn how to let your applets speak across frames and browser window boundaries The AppletContext class in the java.applet package contains the two member functions getApplet and getApplets. By using those functions, an applet can find other applets and invoke…
A reader asks for clarity on JFC documents; Java Q&A expert Tony Sintes responds Q: I just read your previous Java Q&A ” Make Bad Users Behave by Using JFC Documents .” Upon reading the insertString() method I was a…