Gartner diary
While the official line on Web services may be ‘wait and see,’ XML is making its way into quite a few new products “ALL OF MY CLIENTS are asking about .Net. What is it? Do I need it?” “Hello, your…
Astute Observer
Network Instruments’ Observer Suite provides an easy, cost-effective way to audit use and spot misuse of WLANs AS WLANS (WIRELESS LANS) continue to be deployed throughout the enterprise, administrators need tools to help them audit wireless network installations, analyze performance,…
A Flash-forward look
Flash Remoting heralds a new generation of Internet apps MACROMEDIA’S MX product line, unveiled last week, charts a future for Internet applications that beckons two very different groups of developers. Flash MX on the client side and ColdFusion MX on…
It’s in the mail
Chairman Greg Olson tells how Sendmail can manage content, rein in costs associated with e-mail See correction below SENDMAIL IS THE venerable technology that moves the majority of electronic mail across the Internet. But the cryptic nature of Sendmail has…
Interview: Network Appliance maps a distributed future
CEO Dan Warmenhoven and VP Ray Villeneuve discuss the future of networked storage AS THE DEMAND for delivering data across distributed network architectures increases, it’s driving a new generation of storage technologies. Network Appliance’s CEO Dan Warmenhoven and VP of…
It’s POI-fect
Use the Apache POI API to read and write from Java to MS Excel files May 3, 2002; Updated January 18, 2003 In “It’s Excel-lent” (JavaWorld, June 2001) I showed how to read and write to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet documents…
Jtrix: Web services beyond SOAP
A new bag of tricks for developing Web services SOAP can’t deliver Jini and EJBs (Enterprise JavaBeans) provide a terrific basis for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services. But SOAP is just a slightly advanced form of remote procedure…
Study guide: Achieve strong performance with threads, Part 1
Brush up on Java terms, learn tips and cautions, review homework assignments, and read Jeff’s answers to student questions Glossary of terms animation The act of repeatedly drawing on one surface images that slightly differ from each other to achieve…
Java Product News (updated May 3, 2002)
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC; Small Worlds navigates Java systems; and more Microsoft releases SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC May 3 — The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is a Type…
Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 1: Introducing threads and runnables
Learn how to improve Java application performance using Java threads This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show…
