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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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Vol: 7 Iss: 7 |
When I wrote my last editorial I was on a plane to Toronto. What I neglected to tell you was where I was off to after Toronto. It was to Redmond, Washington, as the guest of Microsoft, where they showed me the virtues of their .NET framework. It was a very interesting visit and I learn... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 13,762 Replies: 3 |
Java, in its J2ME guise, has all the attributes of a first-rate platform for embedded system design. More specifically, its platform independence, code portability, and robust operation render it particularly suited to such applications. The extensive use of embedded Java-based dev... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 12,692 |
Sir Clive Sinclair had a dream: everyone should own a computer. In the early '80s, this was quite an ambitious, almost foolhardy thing to say, given that the cost of computing machinery was well beyond the grasp of individuals. Despite the hurdles, Sinclair Research Ltd. produced o... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 20,166 |
The Austin Java User Group recently sponsored a contest to create the smallest Java Hello World! program. The rules were simple: create the smallest Java class that when executed will display the text 'Hello World!' (and only that text) to the console. Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 25,475 Replies: 3 |
What gets most people excited about Web services is that it provides a vision of a future where disparate applications are hooked together in innovative yet undiscovered ways to solve the next generation of IT problems. Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 12,627 Replies: 1 |
During a lunch discussion with my fellow officers in the Tulsa Java User Group, we explored the issues. We also decided to see if we could get some vendors to come in and discuss the issues from both perspectives. This expanded into a formal debate, and thus the .NET vs J2EE Smackdown ... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 13,614 Replies: 4 |
When a client recently requested secure communication among multiple platform boxes distributed across three continents, I decided to leverage the 100% Java-based security available via Java Secure Socket Extension. Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 17,946 Replies: 5 |
This is the thirteenth installment of Cubist Threads, but ironically I'm feeling pretty darned lucky to be writing it. Who would have thought this blatantly self-aggrandizing auto-theoretica would survive a whole year? Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 15,542 |
We were recently looking for a skilled Swing engineer for one of our clients. Three people who had been referred to us looked like good candidates for the job. One of them was happily employed. The other two had left the business - one is now an aspiring rock star, the other, a monk. Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 12,903 Replies: 2 |
Ever since the Java Card 1.0 was introduced in 1996 it has been gradually maturing, and recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. American Express, Visa, and now the Department of Defense have all deployed solutions that utilize the Java Card specifications. Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 13,276 Replies: 2 |
At the recent JavaOne conference in San Francisco, SchlumbergerSema demonstrated the benefits of a Java-based smart card. 'A Java what?' was a common response by visitors. A brief explanation showed that anyone with a GSM mobile phone, and many with a credit card, carry one of these ar... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 10,644 |
A recent press release from Palm got me thinking about their PDAs, as well as why Palm (in the UK) never returned my e-mails...but that's another matter (and half a world away now). In any case, according to the release, 5,000 Palms are to be purchased as part of a three-year grant pro... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 14,029 Replies: 1 |
There's no escaping that the evolution of programming languages has its advantages and disadvantages. The addition of the java.util.regex package to the JDK1.4 API is a perfect example of Java's development since 1995. However, there's a group of programmers who know only Java and no o... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 16,046 |
In 1998 Sun introduced their distributed server-side component architecture under the name of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). Since then, the EJB technology has seen a widespread acceptance throughout the industry. The 'write once, run anywhere' philosophy embraced by the EJB specification... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 20,301 Replies: 3 |
Here's a short pop quiz: Have you ever built an application in J2EE and taken it through the entire product life cycle? Or, for that matter, any distributed computing application? If the answer is 'Yes,' then answer this one: Have you handled all the facets of the application on your o... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 16,316 |
To fully appreciate the power behind Workshop, you need to know a bit about Java Web Services (JWS), an up-and-coming standard in the J2EE world. Just as you can embed Java code in a JSP file and have it compile on the application server, Java code in a JWS file is compiled automat... Jul. 1, 2002 Reads: 14,512 |
