Servertec serves up iServer Servertec has released iServer, a small, scalable, and easy-to-administer platform-independent application written entirely in Java. iServer can be used as a Web server for static Web pages; it can also become an application server for generating…
A swinger’s guide to Java published Manning Publications has a new book, Swing, by Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev. The book targets serious programmers interested in maximizing Java’s Swing technology, which allows developers to create powerful and complex cross-platform GUIs.…
Developing on Internet time still requires strong software-engineering principles For several months in 1999, I worked primarily on the backend of a Web-based, ecommerce project. Almost all project software was implemented using Java and server-side Java technologies, including servlets, a…
Use Xbeans to process your XML as DOM Documents The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, has gained widespread popularity as a way to represent data in a portable, vendor-neutral, readable format. Many software vendors have announced “support for XML,” usually…
Learn the basics of designing J2EE applications — from one handy guide Sun’s recent release of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition reference implementation, or J2EE RI (see Resources for downloading information), provides an implementation of all the J2EE functionality, including…
Facing today’s business challenges with Java In Part 1 of this series, I presented several observations that set the stage for a useful business discussion about Java. If you’re going to convince your manager to adopt Java, you should begin…
Use JNDI directory services to better manage your distributed applications Return with me, for a moment, to last month’s point of departure. I introduced you (or reintroduced you, as the case may be) to that aged institution known as a…
Discover the power and limitations of the ServiceRegistrar interface The Jini lookup service, the central component of Jini’s runtime infrastructure, offers Jini clients a flexible and powerful way to find Jini services. It enables service providers to advertise their services…
Follow these Java server-side data -mining patterns with multiple ResultSets for maximum performance How a Java application communicates with a relational database is remarkably similar from case to case, since the application module that communicates with the database performs the…
Force Java’s UI event queue to decide when to show the hourglass cursor Judging the amount of time required to execute a given task in a development process is nearly impossible. Executing the task on the actual target machine, however,…