Oracle’s BC4J delivers reusable components to the Linux platform Talk to recycling experts, and they’ll speak about the “inherent economy” — that is, reusing existing materials instead of creating new materials from scratch. The same principle applies to application development.…
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 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 —…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Learn how to implement JDK 1.2’s high-quality sound Earlier versions of the JDK produced audio through an applet or an application in .au format only, which provided support for 8,000 Hz mono 8-bit mu-Law-encoded audio clips. That fairly substandard sound…
Learn to write reliable and portable EJB 1.1 components Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a specification and architecture for the development and deployment of distributed server-side, transactional, and secure business application components. The EJB architecture is the basis and core of…