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Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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Vol. 11 Iss: 10 |
 Putting AJAX functionality into your Web application can be a daunting task when you're first learning AJAX. After all you're a Java programmer not a JavaScript programmer. It can also be very frustrating having to learn how the different browsers handle XMLHttpRequests. It's been repo...Feb. 2, 2007 Reads: 40,789 Replies: 2 |
 The JCP evolves in much the same way as software: we gain experience with the current implementation, gather ideas from many sources, give an initial ordering to the many ideas, write a draft, get initial feedback, write another draft, get more feedback and so on, towards a reasonable ...Nov. 9, 2006 Reads: 13,665 |
 Abstraction, as defined on dictionary.com, is 'considering something as a general quality or characteristic, apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.' It's a powerful concept that underpins software reuse. When you implement a problem, if, instead of starti...Nov. 5, 2006 Reads: 18,886 Replies: 3 |
 In this article I'll share my experience in using the new features in Java 5 for solving an old industry problem, the problem of collecting constantly published financial data in reliable way. The business case example I'm going to discuss relates to the acquisition of some sort of mar...Nov. 3, 2006 Reads: 13,444 |
 Many in the Open Source community (including the camps following Tomcat, Geronimo, Struts, Spring, and Hibernate) have chosen to focus on solving problems of developer efficiency and software elegance, and are sometimes forced to leave production operating characteristics such as HA (h...Nov. 1, 2006 Reads: 11,274 Replies: 1 |
 I'd like to share some of the design highlights of a large-scale content distributing system I worked on a while back. Some of the highlights may seem trivial; some may be a little more complicated. To me, software design is a matter of finding a balance between applying available tec...Oct. 24, 2006 Reads: 15,494 |
 The Eclipse platform is an Open Source, integrated system of application development tools that you implement and extend using a plug-in interface. Eclipse provides a set of core plug-ins that configures the basic services for the platform's framework. A platform developer can build an...Oct. 23, 2006 Reads: 22,719 Replies: 1 |
 The persistence model introduced in EJB 3.0 as a replacement for entity beans is known as the Java Persistence API (JPA). The JPA borrows from both proprietary and open source models, such as Oracle TopLink, Hibernate, Spring, and other frameworks, which have gained traction as popular...Oct. 23, 2006 Reads: 27,030 Replies: 1 |
 Recently I was able to talk to Tim Cramer, executive director of tools at Sun, about NetBeans. Tim started in engineering doing supercomputer compiler work, moved to more generalized hardware compiler work, and naturally moved to JIT/dynamic compilers in Java during its first few years...Oct. 23, 2006 Reads: 23,780 |
 To make a good impression, one needs to have a good vocabulary. Management Professionals, University Professors, or GRE/GMAT aspirants - we all benefit from a decent set of words in this competitive world. There are different ways we can improve our vocabulary, such as reading novels, ...Oct. 22, 2006 Reads: 13,064 Replies: 2 |
 Experience has taught us that it's not enough to simply have a persistence standard as part of an enterprise specification. It must be a standard that can solve people's problems and be useful to most of the applications that want to use it. While earlier versions of Enterprise JavaBe...Oct. 20, 2006 Reads: 21,050 |
