Clean up your wire protocol with SOAP, Part 2
Use Apache SOAP to create SOAP-based applications SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a wire protocol that uses XML for data encoding. It is a minimalist specification of sorts; it only defines the most critical pieces required by a wire…
Java Product News (April 27, 2001)
Motorola releases first MIDP-certified wireless phones Sun Microsystems has certified Motorola’s i85s and i50sx wireless phones with the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), the first phones to feature such a certification. The new phones offer two-way radio, interactive pager, and…
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…
Facilitate form processing with the Form Processing API
Use the new servlet-based API with JSPs and JavaBeans to process form data When designing a solution and then writing code for it, I often face a dilemma: Should I build a quick solution to finish my work quickly, or…
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
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…
Serve clients’ specific protocol requirements with Brazil, Part 4
Build multicast-aware apps with JRMS So far in this series, I have discussed how to meet client protocol requirements utilizing Brazil technology. You have learned how to use Java applets, JavaScript, BSL, plain text, Palm query applications, and WML (Wireless…
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,…
