E-business choice: Java or Windows?
Two InfoWorld Test Center veterans debate the pros and cons for e-business of J2EE vs. Microsoft 2000 With the recent rise in acceptance and deployment of Internet applications, corporations have quickly come to realize that the applications they build must…
Take control of the servlet environment, Part 2
Alternatives to servlet session management In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the Rudimental Servlet Extension Framework (RSEF) and delved into its bowels, exposing the potential power of intercepting communications between your servlets and the servlet engine. In Part…
Untangle your servlet code with reflection
Simplify servlet structure by breaking down functionality into separate methods Despite the elegance of the Servlet API, real-world servlet classes tend to have pages of code in their doGet() and doPost() methods, often with complex conditional logic. Over time, more…
Java Product News (December 21, 2000)
INDEXHEAD: Sun unveils Forte for Java, release 2.0 Sun Microsystems’s updated Forte for Java, its cross-platform development environment, relies on an open source framework that allows developers to create applications using a modular design. Release 2.0 also lets developers add…
JUnit best practices
Techniques for building resilient, relocatable, multithreaded JUnit tests JUnit is a typical toolkit: if used with care and with recognition of its idiosyncrasies, JUnit will help to develop good, robust tests. Used blindly, it may produce a pile of spaghetti…
C#: A language alternative or just J–?, Part 2
The semantic differences and design choices between C# and Java In Part 1 of this series, I covered the similarities between C# and Java, explained C#’s role in .Net, speculated on the possible outcomes of using multiple languages in application…
Buy, don’t build
With search engines, it’s best to purchase one off the shelf Q: How would you go about designing a search engine? A: Whenever I get such emails, I have to wonder why anyone would want to reinvent the wheel. In…
Java threads: A comparative book review
Choose the best tutorial for learning to program with Java threads Ever since the first editions of Java Threads from O’Reilly and Concurrent Programming in Java from Addison-Wesley came out several years ago, I’ve been recommending them to people who…
Java security evolution and concepts, Part 3: Applet security
Tackle Java applet security with confidence Java’s early growth was spurred by code downloadable over a network, better know as applets. Applet security has evolved with the growth of Java, and today is a source of frequent confusion due to…
Java Product News (December 15, 2000)
INDEXHEAD: InstallShield simplifies multiplatform deployment strategies InstallShield Software has created three new multiplatform edition offerings (previously known as InstallShield Java Edition) that supply software developers with the ability to deploy applications across multiple platforms, including Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows, and…
