Ringing in the New Year The year 2006 was a great
year for community
technology development
across the board. At the
JCP, Spec Leads, Expert
Groups members, observers
and Executive Committee
members worked together
to take Java standards to
the next level ... Feb. 11, 2007 Reads: 12,546 |
Software Should Be More
Hard Wearing I am always in awe of
people who develop
hardware. They're the
real engineers of our
profession, the ones
pushing forward the
speeds at which things
work, their size, and
their connectivity. For
example, in 2005 there
were more co... Feb. 5, 2007 Reads: 12,653 Replies: 5 |
Which Is More Important -
Saddam Hussein or
Google? The year 2006 in which
YouTube became culturally
ubiquitous, Flash video
became the de facto
Internet video standard
of the Web, Microsoft
beta-launched Vista, and
the Wii entered our lives
- was also memorable for
one or two other ... Jan. 18, 2007 Reads: 20,245 |
Change Is Good! In an article in the
October edition of the
FTP Webzine 'Upside'
Peter Varhol laments the
trend toward
per-developer metrics in
the software development
process. 'Individual
developer data is stored
and available to be
manipulated... Jan. 21, 2007 Reads: 13,428 Replies: 1 |
Performance Management
101 for WebLogic Portal Even experienced Java Web
developers are often
surprised by how big a
leap it is to develop a
portal. The simple, slick
interface that end users
see belies the deep power
and complexity provided
by commercial products
like BEA WebLo... Jan. 24, 2007 Reads: 12,121 Replies: 1 |
The Paradox of Writing
Perfect Code Don't you love looking at
a good piece of code? I'm
talking about the kind of
code where the design is
so sound that the code
practically wrote itself,
where there were no nasty
surprises at
implementation, where it
was 100% feature... Jan. 29, 2007 Reads: 15,555 |
EJB 3 Transactions Much of the work
surrounding the design
and development of
enterprise applications
involves decisions about
how to coordinate the
flow of persistent data.
This includes when and
where to cache data, when
to apply it to a
persisten... Jan. 28, 2007 Reads: 22,803 |
Configuring WebLogic
Server 9.x JDBC WebLogic Server 9.x
provides database
connectivity with data
sources. A data source is
a pool of database
connections from which a
connection can be
obtained. A data source
can be configured
separately or as a
multi-datasource. A ... Jan. 30, 2007 Reads: 15,300 Replies: 1 |
Are Vendors Becoming More
in Charge of Java
Enterprise Edition... One of the things that
kept me and my team busy
over the past couple of
years was starting to
support J2EE 1.4 in
OptimalJ - a goal that we
accomplished with the
release of OptimalJ 4.2.
Now that this job is
complete, it's
interes... Jan. 22, 2007 Reads: 9,021 |
Java Feature — What
Is SCA? Service Component
Architecture (SCA) is a
simple model for creating
service-oriented
applications. This
article highlights the
benefits of SCA and
introduces SCA concepts
by walking through an
example. The example has
been develop... Feb. 4, 2007 Reads: 30,067 Replies: 1 |
Coding with Java Swing Even for many seasoned
developers, Swing code
can be notoriously
difficult to organize.
Where is the right place
to put parsing and
validation logic? How do
you prevent those
threading issues that
cause lockups or
repainting gli... Feb. 12, 2007 Reads: 20,841 Replies: 2 |
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