Alternative deployment methods, Part 1: Beyond applets

Examine the software deployment problem and the requirements that a good deployment solution must satisfy You designed your client’s next big Java-based application, and now you must plan for its deployment. The end-user population consists primarily of several hundred nontechnical…

JFC: Why do you act like that?

Why do we have to add components to a JFrame’s content? Q: Why do we have to add components to a JFrame’s content pane? Why can’t we just add it directly to the frame like in the AWT? A: Actually,…

News and New Product Briefs (May 5, 2000)

Informix’s i.Sell WAP personalizes wireless market Informix expanded its i.Sell offerings by adding an i.Sell WAP module for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating environment. With the i.Sell WAP product, which makes use of the Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP), customers can use…

Create dynamic images in Java servlets

Create dynamic images in Java servlets

Dynamically convert users’ requests into an image Many Websites now use charts and graphs to represent some type of numeric information. In some cases, the chart or graph image is best constructed in realtime. Two reasons could motivate you to…

How handlers work in Web-accessible home automation

How handlers work in Web-accessible home automation

Using Sun Labs’ Brazil server as your starting point Developing consistent, reliable Web applications that interface with such different devices as home networks, home automation systems, and realtime telemetry devices can be vastly simplified by treating devices as URLs. The…

Server-side XML-to-HTML translation

How do you convert XML to HTML on the server side? Q: I want to generate XML-based pages using the XSL on the server side so that the client gets plain HTML, rather than the XML plus an XSL page.…

Secure a Web application, Java-style

Use Java’s multiple-layer security implementation to protect your Web Web security can be defined in various ways, depending on individual points of view. The main focus of security in this article is the safety of applications developed and deployed for…

News and New Product Briefs (April 28, 2000)

FrontMind 2.0 personalizes online efforts Manna has enhanced its FrontMind e-marketing software with new capabilities that allow organizations to evaluate online efforts prior to deployment with ROI reporting and upfront simulation abilities. FrontMind 2.0 allows marketers to customize and personalize…

Open source ArgoUML offers unique decision support

The InfoWorld Test Center reviews the Java-based ArgoUML UML modeling solution For companies that are just getting started with UML (the Unified Modeling Language, a method of visually depicting business processes), the range of diagram types, semantics, and notation can…