INDEXHEAD: HMS Software unveils Java-based Palm tool HMS Software has introduced TimeControl Express, a new timesheet product for Palm devices and Pocket PCs. Written in Java KVM, the package works in conjunction with HMS’s original timekeeping product, TimeControl, and allows…
Explore your options for managing transactions A transaction can be defined as an indivisible unit of work comprised of several operations, all or none of which must be performed in order to preserve data integrity. For example, a transfer of…
Implement visitors in Java, using reflection Collections are commonly used in object-oriented programming and often raise code-related questions. For example, “How do you perform an operation across a collection of different objects?” One approach is to iterate through each element…
In Dan Briody’s The Ten Commandments of cell phone etiquette he asks for suggestions for additions. In Dan Briody’s The Ten Commandments of cell phone etiquette he asks for suggestions for additions. Thou can make them below. We’ve updated the…
Discover the skills you need to program Java on Linux Q: I have two requests: I would appreciate a pointer to a list of Web resources that outline how to integrate Java on the Linux platform. What Unix/Linux knowledge should…
Although two of Java’s biggest backers — Sun and IBM — have mended fences, the Java community still sees tension over licensing and open standards July 7, 2000 — Sun and IBM this week called a truce to their high-profile…
Learn how to deploy, use, and benchmark JDBC driver types 1, 2, 3, and 4 Why should you consider Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers apart from the JDBC-ODBC Bridge? What level of JDBC driver is suited for your application? What…
DOMination: Take control of structured documents with the Document Object Model The Simple API for XML (SAX) is an excellent interface for many XML applications. It is intuitive, extremely easy to learn, and, as its name implies, simple. Any Java…
Use XSL and servlets to style your XML data Wow, you’ve come so far. A year ago you didn’t know what XML was, but now it’s everywhere. You’re storing XML in databases and using it in middleware, and now you…
Enhance the framework to support large-scale projects The if-then-else framework is a tool for coding complex branching logic in a maintainable way. In the first two parts of this series, I described how to use the framework in a simple…