Vol. 10 Iss: 7 Read back Issues

JSR Watch: JCP Recognizes the Best Member, Spec Leads, and Specifications Last month at the 2005 JavaOne Conference, members of the Java Community Process (JCP) program got together with the other Java communities for our traditional annual Java Communities in Action event. We mixed, mingled, and celebr... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 21,558  Replies: 1

Small Business Solutions Several years ago I was thinking about buying a small gas station in my local town. I went to my friend Gregory Z., a successful businessman in this field, and asked him, 'How do I start a gasoline business?' He gave me simple but w... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 28,727  Replies: 19

Sun Did It in 1986; Microsoft Took Longer Who do you suppose registered their corporate Internet domain name first: Microsoft, Oracle, or Sun? The answer is Sun; it did so in 1986. When in the early 1980s Dr. David Mills, John Postel, Zaw-Sing Su, and Dr. Paul Mockapetris... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 28,222  Replies: 1

How To Pass A Technical Job Interview With Flying Colors If last September I was calling the Java job market healthy (see http: //java.sys-con.com/read/4 6228.htm), today's market is hot. Once again recruiters are hungry and polite, but this doesn't mean you can easily get a new job. I'd li... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 44,922  Replies: 1

Facading on the Fly: A Framework Proposal For Improving Network Speed Network speed has improved tremendously over the years and has revolutionized enterprise computing, but even with today's network infrastructure sending messages across a network is of several orders slower than sending messages l... Jul. 19, 2005  Reads: 18,004  Replies: 2

Challenges in the J2EE Web Tier While Frameworks Driving Innovation Over the course of its life, the J2EE Web Tier has faced many challenges in easing Web application development. While it's a scalable, enterprise-ready platform, it isn't exactly developer-friendly. Particular challenges to Web ... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 43,892  Replies: 3

How To Pick A Programming Language: Back To Two Tiers and Plain JSP There comes a time, for many Web sites, when the transition from static HTML to dynamic HTML has to be made. Whether it's a static company Web site that needs to become a dynamic online store, or a simple collection of family pictur... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 29,380  Replies: 10

Mastering Mustang: JDK 6.0 Mustang Release This month I wanted to review some of the latest happenings in the JDK 6.0 (Mustang) release. Although we have to wait to see the initial JSR draft, you can download the binaries the engineers are actually working on. Some of the ... Jul. 20, 2005  Reads: 15,685  Replies: 2

An Exclusive Interview With Mike Milinkovich Of Eclipse Foundation First, the importance of adding companies such as BEA, Borland, and Computer Associates to our board cannot be overstated. Each of these companies competes fiercely with IBM in the marketplace. Each is making million dollar plus i... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 33,984  Replies: 1

Java Collections Framework & Managing Data Every application has to consider how its data is stored, manipulated, and accessed. Fortunately for Java developers Sun provides commonly employed data structures as part of the Java platform in the Java Collections Framework (JC... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 27,265  Replies: 1

JDBC 4.0: A Significant Advance on the Standard and Features Worth the Wait Pooling is great - except it's not very tunable. It's hard to map end users back to connections in the pool, and if a connection ever becomes invalid inside the pool, expunging only that connection from the pool is nearly impossible... Jul. 27, 2005  Reads: 34,329  Replies: 2

Software Engineers Aren't Doing Enough To Really Create Error-Free Software The problem with defects is that while they occur, the cost of finding and preventing them has a diminishing return, so the approach often taken is that once no more serious defects can be found in a test pass, all that remains must... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 20,959  Replies: 2

Rich-Client Portlets And Half-Object + Protocol Design Pattern The portlet specification defines a standard infrastructure for Web portals in J2EE. While this infrastructure helps reduce proprietary code in HTML applications, it poses a challenge in Rich-Internet Applications (RIA) that have ... Jul. 18, 2005  Reads: 23,459  Replies: 1

How To Give Your Web Applications A Facelift With WebCharts3D To Make It A Blockbuster You can create a sophisticated application that implements complex algorithms, but in many cases you sell its GUI part to your users. The presentation layer of plain vanilla HTML/JSP-based Web applications is usually pretty basic ... Aug. 17, 2005  Reads: 30,480  Replies: 3