A dose of Java strengthens WebLogic 6.0

BEA Systems‘ latest app server release boasts excellent use of J2EE and the potential to scale in stride with your company Companies looking to decrease their applications’ time to market, boost developer productivity, and relieve many of the headaches associated…

Sun launches Jxta development platform

Sun’s chief scientist Bill Joy officially launches the open source Jxta peer-to-peer project April 25, 2001 — Sun Microsystems on Wednesday officially launched Jxta, an open source project that Sun hopes will become the basis for p-to-p (peer-to-peer) computing applications…

Secure type-safe collections

Overcome the problems of the generic type containers in the Java Collections Framework The Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in 1998 in JDK 1.2, is quickly becoming the standard for storing dynamic data in Java systems. Many new APIs use…

Savor success with Java on the front end

Savor success with Java on the front end

HTML, Swing, or XML: Choose the best front-end technology for your Java development Are you tired of the hype and publicity forced by sales and marketing departments to promote their technologies? Java has enjoyed a flow of positive and negative…

Java development tools duke it out for biz apps

Sun Forte for Java 2.0 and Oracle JDeveloper 3.2 help enterprise developers gain the upper hand Setting corporate standards for development tools can be a lot like herding cats. Most software developers are quite particular about which tools they use.…

E++: A pattern language for J2EE applications, Part 1

Build better J2EE applications with a high-level pattern language Your company decides to build or migrate from existing two-tier applications to an n-tier J2EE solution. The targeted application needs to have characteristics of modularity, reusability, extensibility, portability, inversion of control,…

Four for the ages

Answers on threads, Class.forName(), multiple values, and shallow copying This Q&A is a bit different in that I’m going to tackle four quick questions in one swoop. We’ll look at green versus native threads, Class.forName(), returning multiple values from a…

Manage distributed sessions

To avoid a single point of failure, use a distributed architecture for managing sessions For a good description of what sessions are and what the problem with having sessions across multiple servlet servers is, refer to Thomas E. Davis and…