Standardize the way Jini clients release finite nonmemory resources In May 1998, I published “Object finalization and cleanup” in my Design Techniques column of JavaWorld. In this article, I gave advice on designing the end of object lifetimes. In particular,…
Reap the benefits of a cross-platform IDE for enterprise development Today, as more corporations and systems integration vendors choose Java as the preferred language for development across n-application tiers, and the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and the Java Platform 2 Platform,…
The <em>InfoWorld</em> Test Center reviews SilverStream’s Application Server 3.0 Once a mere programming language, Java has since transformed itself into an all-purpose environment for enterprise applications. With Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Sun has given developers a full suite of…
Add scripts to your JavaBeans or JavaBeans to your scripts The Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) is one of the more interesting Java offerings available free at IBM’s alphaWorks site (see Resources). BSF lets Java programs run scripts written in other…
Can you count on compilers to optimize your Java code? Developers are accustomed to compilers from languages other than Java that support various optimizations. In development, code is typically compiled with optimizations turned off so that source-level debuggers can operate…
Create Java apps with SAX appeal So, you understand (more or less) how you would represent your data in XML, and you’re interested in using XML to solve many of your data-management problems. Yet you’re not sure how to use…
Can JButton create a multiline button? Q: Suppose I want to create the button with a label as shown below: “Your Name” “Name” will be on the second line. I tried to create it with: new JButton(“Your n Name”) Unfortunately,…
A technique to give users more freedom when modal dialogs are too restrictive When designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs), you might come across a few situations that require the use of semimodal dialogs. This Java Tip outlines how to create…
Find out where you can get the best servlet coverage Lately, I’m often asked which books on Java servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) I would recommend. In fact, even when I was at a local bookstore recently someone asked me…
Improve GUI performance using ‘lazy’ evaluation Slow graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are a common complaint directed at Java. While constructing snappy GUIs can take time and effort, I’ll present a class that can speed up GUIs with little extra work…