Java Product News (updated October 4, 2002)
PointBase enhances relational database suite; Manning publishes JMX guide; esmertec expands JVM product line; and more PointBase enhances relational database suite October 4 — PointBase has announced version 4.4 of its Java database and synchronization products. PointBase Embedded 4.4, a…
Study guide: Java’s character and assorted string classes support text-processing
Brush up on Java terms, learn tips and cautions, review homework assignments, and read Jeff’s answers to student questions Glossary of terms capacity Length of the internal array in a data structure object, such as a StringBuffer object. delimiters Characters…
Java 101: Java’s character and assorted string classes support text-processing
Explore Character, String, StringBuffer, and StringTokenizer Text can represent a combination of digits, letters, punctuation, words, sentences, and more. Computer programs that process text need assistance (from their associated languages) to represent and manipulate text. Java provides such assistance through…
Keeping BPM on track
SonicXQ 1.5 offers a strong solution for business process management It’s easy to identify a poorly planned Web services strategy: it emphasizes technical benefits over business objectives. Merely replacing CORBA, COM (Component Object Model), and EJB (Enterprise JavaBean) interfaces with…
The Web services grid
Is the democratization of the middle tier finally upon us? By my reckoning, J2EE was conceived at Microsoft in 1996, when legendary database guru Jim Gray was hired to lead the Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) project. In MTS, which begat…
Trying to build a case against ‘warchalking’
Opposition isn’t as simple as it might seem I’ve been thinking a lot about “warchalking” recently, which is strange because until last week I’d never heard of the word. Warchalking is a direct descendant of “wardialing,” in which people would…
SAP drives enterprisewide collaboration
Executive board member Shai Agassi discusses the xApps platform and SAP’s commitment to openness AS A MEMBER of SAP’s executive board, Shai Agassi is a lead proselytizer for the company’s commitment to collaborative application solutions. Agassi met with InfoWorld Test…
Commission Junction seeks your feedback on ‘stealware’
‘Sneakware’ diverts money from legitimate recipients The e-commerce world was rocked this week by a feature story in Friday’s New York Times explaining that many free, peer-to-peer music-sharing programs have been secretly diverting affiliate commissions from the rightful recipients to…
Wireless LANs at the office
Managing WLANs and their users turn IT managers into air traffic controllers Although deployment of wireless LAN networks has been a roaring success off campus — especially helpful for field force workers and in warehouse or distribution spaces, as IEEE…
Here comes the Sun
Sun plays the client card in its strategic battle with Microsoft and Dell for control of the enterprise desktop “THERE ARE A SERIES of dynamics in the industry that are yielding some interesting disruptive opportunities.” That’s what Sun software chief…
