The great debate: .Net vs. J2EE
Does one Web services platform dominate the other? Though the debate over the superiority of .Net versus that of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) seems a hot topic in today’s technology circles, many people believe it is simply a…
Cache SOAP services on the client side
Design patterns let you cache SOAP services and improve performance The Web services revolution has started. New standards and technologies enable and integrate distributed Web services. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), an XML RPC (remote procedure call)/messaging protocol, underlies it…
Java Tip 124: Trace your steps in Java 1.4
Locate runtime code with getStackTrace() I don’t know about you, but I really like to know where I am. Being a guy, I’m never lost, but sometimes I just don’t know where I am. Some places, such as malls, have…
Java Product News (updated March 8, 2002)
SolarMetric expands Kodo’s enterprise abilities; Metrowerks opens wireless development centers; and more SolarMetric expands Kodo’s enterprise abilities March 8 — Kodo JDO (Java Data Objects) Enterprise Edition 2.2, a tool for accessing relational databases, is now available from SolarMetric. Version…
Catalyst upgrades software build process tool
CATALYST SYSTEMS THIS week announced availability of Openmake Version 6.0, a tool to automate application development by implementing a standard software build process. Featuring a rules engine and knowledgebase server, Openmake enables enterprises to align the development of production software…
Corda Technologies upgrades Web-based charting tool
LINDON, UTAH-BASED CORDA Technologies this week announced PopChart 4.0, a Web-based charting and graphing product that enables users to deliver and use charts and graphs as a Web service. The product supports XML as well as .Net and Java paradigms…
Privacy: An important but complex right
Separating legal from moral rights is a key to understanding What is this so-called right to privacy and where does it come from? After my previous columns on privacy, some readers wrote in to ask about privacy in general and…
Vignette manages content
Execs discuss how content management unifies data assets across the enterprise AS A PIONEER in the content management space, Vignette rose to prominence along with the rise of the Internet economy. Today content management has evolved well beyond a task…
The role (or non-role) of ads in building your traffic
Search engine referrals may be enough for profitability I’ve written for the past two weeks about ISBN.nu, a one-man e-commerce site that makes a healthy profit by showing price comparisons among different online booksellers that carry a particular book. Webmaster…
Heart of the Web services revolution
During the past few years, BPM (business process management) has quickly become one of the hotter trends in the world of EAI (enterprise application integration). And why not? With BPM, companies can take separate pieces of business logic and organize…
