Some trends you just
don't see coming, like
the return of bell-bottom
pants. They are
mysterious and leave you
wondering what people can
possibly be thinking
about. Other trends are
much more comprehensible
and when they start to
...
When Edison invented
electric lighting, his
company was
simultaneously selling
generators, switches and
lightbulbs. At the time
he invented it, there was
no preexisting
infrastructure for
electricity, so he had to
sell his custome...
Java has brought much in
the way of programming
advancement within easy
reach of developers.
Powerful constructs such
as multithreading and
advance communication are
now relatively easy for
you to use in your
programs. Java has also...
This article is Part 3 of
an interactive series
that discusses the many
languages that compile
and/or run on the Java
platform. Java
Developer's Journal
invites you to vote for
your favorite non-Java
programming language in
the JD...
OMG members met in
Denver, Colorado, the
week of March 6-10, 2000.
In this column I'll
summarize as many of the
various efforts that
progressed as space
permits.
With the proliferation of
Java-based application
servers at the core of
today's Web applications,
the preferred Web
architecture that has
emerged places Java in
the middle tier,
gathering data from
myriad sources, and HTML
present...
JDJ: Randy, tell us a
little bit about
Persistence. Hietter:
Well, Persistence
Software is an EJB
application server vendor
company. We actually got
started back in 1991
building
object-relational mapping
tools. Our founders saw
...
Discussion groups have
recently been abuzz with
talk of
"coarse-grained
entity beans" - a
slight misnomer deriving,
I suspect, from the
addition of mandatory
entity beans in EJB 1.1.
This month I'll examine
the finer poi...
As the software
development process
becomes ever more
complex, end users demand
more and more
functionality in less and
less time. Companies are
extending their business
applications to run on
both intranets and the
Internet, and ...
Having been involved in a
fair number of
development projects over
the years, I've often
wondered what goes on
during the process of
setting up and
configuring installation
programs using authoring
tools such as
InstallShield. The...
JDJ: Would you tell us a
little about the recently
released NuMega
DevPartner 2.0 Java
Edition? O'Brien:
DevPartner Java Edition
is a suite of
productivity tools
created to help
developers build
reliable,
high-performance
appl...
If you know SQL and Java,
and you want to learn
SQLJ, this series of
articles is for you! I'm
going to introduce SQLJ,
the standard for
embedding database SQL
statements in Java
programs. You may be
familiar with JDBC, an
API for...
The convergence of
information technology
(IT) and business
strategy has become an
increasingly critical
competitive factor for
most businesses. Lincoln
Re came to this
realization several years
ago when we embarked on
transformin...
XML has become the
standard format for B2B
data exchange. To
actually implement such
exchanges, however, the
programmer must provide
data transport and
translation services.
Java-based messaging
provides an ideal
transport for XML...
Today marks the beginning
of British summer time.
Hurrah! I prefer the
winter myself, but having
experienced the extreme
temperatures of New York
on a January weekend, I
have to reevaluate my
climate preferences. Now
that the office...
Twenty years after it
first made waves,
rule-based technology is
making a comeback. Java
developers with an eye on
the e-commerce market are
becoming aware of how
integrating business
rules and objects in Java
can help expand Java i...
R. Hightower: Have you
considered an open-
source license? M.
Cowlishaw: Until recently
the licensing issues
seemed something of a
minefield with so many
different ideas on what
open source should be.
Also, my
translator/compiler...
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steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
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experience
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi