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One IDE to Rule Them All At JavaOne, Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of Sun's Software Group, outlined his mission to increase the number of Java developers from 3 million to 10 million. The hope is to attract these extra seven million from ... Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 22,444  Replies: 7

Quality Is Job n? At a training session I recently attended, a presenter mentioned that his cell phone crashes whenever he runs a simple MIDlet that he wrote. While it may have been inevitable that poor-quality environments would make it onto J2ME... Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 19,150

Java & Stream Ciphers In the 1990s, I worked extensively with the Winsock 2 interface and encryption when it first came out from Microsoft in Beta form; it was exciting in those days of networking because it allowed you to easily encrypt data through the networks. Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 26,227

Java Games Development - Part 3 Part 1 of this series appeared in the August issue of Java Developer's Journal (Vol. 8, issue 8), and Part 2 appeared in the September issue (Vol. 8, issue 9). Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 20,613

Does Sun's Desktop System 'Hijack' the Java Brand? Is Sun justified in their use of the Java brand for something that is clearly not very Java! Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 30,457  Replies: 40

It's Not Over Till the Fat Client Sings Reports of Java's death on the desktop may be somewhat premature. A recent Giga group report, 'Return of the Rich Clients', predicts that in the next three years browser-rich clients will grow by 350%, stand-alone clients by 25... Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 13,856  Replies: 4

The Kids Are Alright Every month we're told again and again how Java is on its way out. A multibillion-dollar company tells us that, while hiring other large companies to say the same thing. Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 14,485  Replies: 2

Easing the Pain of Enterprise Application Deployment To provide the best application performance, reliability, scalability, and security for J2EE applications, many large organizations utilize network load-balancing appliances and application switches. Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 13,637  Replies: 2

Zip Objects, Zap Wait Time As the capabilities of our distributed applications increased, so did our consumption of bandwidth. In 1998, our server sent objects no larger than 50K to a group of users on a local network. Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 17,120  Replies: 2

The Location API The Location API (JSR 179) was accepted by the Executive Committee for Micro Edition of the Java Community Process in June 2003. It provides an abstract interface for access to location-based information, such as the current coor... Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 28,164

I Love Logging! A few months ago I wrote an editorial on the touchy subject of proper testing (Vol. 8, issue 6). Thanks to you there was much support (and a volume of information from Parasoft and how JTest linked with unit testing; this opened my eyes!). Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 14,428

From Within the Java Community Process Program This month I'll discuss the evolution of the JCP, J2SE 1.5 or 'Tiger', Java portlets, and a new JSR from Nokia and Siemens. Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 17,382

Multiple Inheritance in Java When Sun was designing Java, it omitted multiple inheritance - or more precisely multiple implementation inheritance - on purpose. Yet multiple inheritance can be useful, particularly when the potential ancestors of a class hav... Oct. 1, 2003  Reads: 36,748  Replies: 3