Enhance the customizability and flexibility of your enterprise Java apps Any viable company has to react quickly to gain or regain an edge over its competitors. For companies that rely on their Websites to generate revenue, this means frequent changes…

Learn to avoid performance hazards when designing Java classes This series explores some of the ways in which early design decisions can significantly affect application performance. Part 1, examined how a class’s object-creational behavior can be embedded in its interface.…

eBeam Moderator 2.0 hardware/software combo captures live whiteboard sessions The whiteboard is the centerpiece of training and brainstorming sessions in corporate offices everywhere. Solutions such as Microsoft NetMeeting allow multiple PC users to share virtual whiteboards via the Internet. But…

Fortress 1.0 Flash Edition creates interactive, multiuser applications Fortress 1.0 Flash Edition is a server solution for building collaboration applications with Macromedia Flash that combines the capabilities of Fortress Collaboration Technology with the networking features of Flash 5. Fortress 1.0…

Refactor broken Java code for fun and profit So, you’ve inherited some code. It’s 50,000 lines of the oldest code on the project. The authors have left the company and won’t return your calls. It’s undocumented, badly designed, and buggy;…

Modify the JEditorPane component to display images You can use the current JEditorPane component to display HTML markup, but to perform more complicated tasks, JEditorPane needs some improvement. Recently, I had to build an XML form builder application. One necessary…

Build automated UIs with XML and XSLT Q: I am developing an application where the UI must be done through a Web browser. The pages are in XML format, and I would like to create a graphical interface based on…