Java Product News (updated January 4, 2002)
JavaOne registration opens; Alcea Technologies releases bug tracking system; and more JavaOne registration opens January 4 — This year’s JavaOne will be held March 25-29 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Conference topics will include “Web Services Today and…
Study guide: Trash talk, Part 2
Brush up on Java terms, review homework assignments, and read Jeff’s answers to student questions Glossary of terms phantom reference A reference to a referent from inside a PhantomReference object. The garbage collector does not clear phantom references. The program…
Java 101: Trash talk, Part 2
The Reference Objects API allows programs to interact with the garbage collector Java’s garbage collection features tend to confuse new developers. I wrote this two-part series on garbage collection to dispel that confusion. Part 1 introduced you to garbage collection,…
Joshua Bloch: A conversation about design
<em>Effective Java</em>’s author discusses API design, reuse, and trust in Java environments Over the past several years, Sun Microsystems Architect Joshua Bloch has designed major enhancements to the Java APIs and language, specifically for the Java Collections API and the…
Web services
It’s a brave new world for application integration DARING INNOVATION IS not the reason why Web services will disrupt the status quo. It is easy to exchange XML-formatted messages via the Internet — and that, of course, is exactly the…
Instant messaging
Real-time collaboration takes corporate users by storm IM (INSTANT MESSAGING) is changing corporate communications, and it’s doing so without the prodding or even the approval of executives and IT managers. Combining the real-time advantages of a phone call with the…
Peer-to-peer
P-to-P technologies create new models of knowledge sharing IF A TECHNOLOGY considered more disruptive to business than peer-to-peer file sharing exists — as seen by the effort to ban corporate access to sites such as Gnutella and Napster — then…
802.11 wireless LANs
Emerging standards prepare wireless networks for prime time WIRELESS NETWORKS based on the 802.11 standard, also known as Wi-Fi, were all the rage last year and promise to be even more popular in 2002, as the growing use of Pocket…
Benevolent worms
Will virus technology be part of future software delivery systems? ALTHOUGH THE PROSPECT of using virus technology to simplify the task of delivering patches and software updates is tempting, the dangers can outweigh the benefits when the process is too…
Serial ATA and iSCSI
Storage networks fuel the distributed enterprise THE MARRIAGE OF networking and storage technologies is not only simplifying the way storage is managed, it also promises to revolutionize the way enterprise storage is used, allowing corporate data to be pushed to…
