Patent Absurdity Third time's the charm
this time. After two
aborted attempts to write
this column, I finally
was able to put pen to
paper (all right, fingers
to keyboard). I've been
really busy patenting the
two through 10 click
methods of buying... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 10,752 |
Applying Patterns to JDBC
Development Developers at some point
in their careers will
find themselves standing
at the whiteboard, trying
their best to regurgitate
some complex development
design they've spent all
night working on. This is
usually done with a
series of st... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 11,003 |
PropArgs - Every
Programmer's Dream A common set of
programming problems
drove us to develop a
Java class we call
PropArgs. Consider the
following questions a
programmer may want
answered about a program:
Which RDBMS instance
should data come from?
Does this particu... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 10,950 |
Building Enterprise Beans
with VisualAge for Java Enterprise JavaBeans (aka
EJBs) are fast becoming a
mainstay in Web-based
business applications.
They're not trivial to
develop, though at
least not if you're
developing them by hand
and ignoring the EJB
tools already available
... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,109 |
Self-Contained Cilent
Applets Using Swing Most Web-based
applications today
confine users to the
frame of their browser,
restricting them to
viewing only one Web page
at a time. Technologies
such as JavaScript make
additional browser
windows possible, but
this approach d... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 13,689 |
PowerTiers 6's PowerPage Persistence Software,
Inc., recently released
the latest version of its
EJB server, PowerTier 6.
It's a little different
from your run-of-the-mill
EJB servers, though. This
JavaOne 2000
special-edition issue of
EJB Home will enlight... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,037 |
Bean-Managed Persistence
Using a Proxy List Say you're writing an
Enterprise JavaBean that
represents a persistent
object, such as a
customer or a product.
You have two choices for
getting data (such as
customer name and product
number) from the bean to
the database and back: Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 171,764 |
Monitoring and
Diagnostics of CORBA
Systems Developing distributed
applications, in contrast
to developing traditional
single-process
applications, requires a
completely different
level of monitoring and
diagnostic support. In
this article I'll discuss
how to monitor and
di... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,702 |
Extending Your
Applications with Bean
Scripting Framework Part 4 of a series
discussing the many
languages that compile
and/or run on the Java
platform Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 20,025 |
Interview...with Alan
Armstrong JDJ: Tell us what KL
Group has been up to
since we last spoke with
you at JavaOne in 1999.
Armstrong: Lots. We've
been very busy over the
past year. Now, with the
release of version 2.8,
JProbe is reinforcing its
leadership in the ... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,504 |
Interview...with Sam Ruby
& Sanjiva Weerawarana Two key members of the
BSF development team, Sam
Ruby and Sanjiva
Weerawarana, helped me
considerably in
developing and
researching this article.
I had a chance to open up
a dialog with them at the
time about the future of
BSF and... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,386 |
Building Multimedia
Repositories Information repositories
are essential. They allow
data to be shared within
or outside an
organization, bringing us
closer to the reality of
the paperless office. Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,295 |
Using the Java Messaging
Service with Enterprise
JavaBeans One unfortunate aspect of
the many enterprise APIs
and specifications that
Sun has released over the
last few years has been
the lack of information
about how some of these
APIs interact with one
another. In particular,
two very use... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 11,748 |
Today's Silver Bullet Is
Tomorrow's Legacy One of the most
delightful parts of my
job is to travel the
world, sharing the Object
Management Group's vision
of integrated,
interoperable systems
with varying sizes of
audience from as few as
10 people to as many as
10,000 ... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,543 |
Beyond Java: The
Metamorphosis of an
Operating Platform By most people's
estimate, it's the fifth
anniversary of Java. Five
years ago, with Netscape
in tow, Sun unveiled
Java, declaring that the
Java programming language
would be the next Web
revolution. At the time
HotJava was the 'kill... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 10,741 |
A Call to Action for the
Java Technology Community We live in a world of
high anxiety. We're
concerned about the
competition, fearful
we'll fall behind the
curve, worried that
making up lost ground
might prove impossible.
So we hastily turn to
technology, which
obligingly always s... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,338 |
Digital Marketplace
Platform: Here
Today,Flexible for
Tomorrow The e-commerce market
opportunities in the B2B
space are exceptionally
greater than those in
B2C. GartnerGroup, one of
the leading analyst
firms, predicts that B2B
e-commerce will amount to
over $7 trillion by the
year 2004. The
i... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,306 |
Building E-Commerce
Applications Using
Business Components for
Java The fifth anniversary of
the inaugural JavaOne
conference is upon us,
and there can be little
doubt that Java has had a
profound impact on the
way that applications are
developed and deployed. Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 12,023 |
Straight Talking.Two &
JavaOne.Five It seems to be the month
for celebrations. Not
only is it the fifth
JavaOne, but it's also
the second anniversary of
this column. Both are
still going strong, so
hurrah! on both accounts.
Long may it continue! Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,420 |
How to Control A Robot
Over the Internet So you want to build a
robot that walks around
and bumps into things.
But that's not enough for
you (this is the year
2000, after all); you
also want to control your
robot over the Internet.
What's more, you want to
use Java to control it. Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 16,070 |
SQL Embedded in Java -
Part 2 It began sometime in late
'96 or early '97 JDK
1.0 still ruled and
Tandem was still called
Tandem, not Digital or
Compaq when people from
IBM, Tandem and Oracle
met and started to muse. Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 11,490 |
The Commerce in Java
Application Servers Before we start on the
technical front, let me
tell you about my latest
acquisition. I recently
went out to purchase a
watch. My wife wanted me
to buy one of the fancy
ones, but I'm more
excited by watches that
have all the features... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 10,977 |
A Java File Search
Utility File searches are
traditionally
accomplished by an
operating system utility.
Most operating systems
provide some sort of
search facility that
allows the user to track
down misplaced or
forgotten files. However,
the facilities diff... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 17,402 Replies: 6 |
When the Internet Gets
Really Big
The Internet is amazing.
In just six short years
it has spawned thousands
of new businesses and
generated billions of
dollars of wealth.
Dot-com fever has
captured the hearts of
America's technologists
and entered the lives of
man... Jun. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,157 |
About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds
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