Vol: 9 Iss: 5 Read Back Issues

Goodbye "Middleware," Hello SOA Applications David Litwack is responsible for the development and advancement of Novell's secure Web services strategy, a position he assumed in July 2002 following Novell's acquisition of SilverStream Software, a company for which he'd served as president and CEO since 1997. He is also a member of... May. 21, 2004  Reads: 40,090  Replies: 4

From Within the Java Community Process Program Welcome to the May edition of the JCP column! Each month you can read about the Java Community Process: newly submitted JSRs, new draft specs, Java APIs that were finalized, and other news from the JCP. Before we start, let me quickly follow up on last month's column: the Groovy JSR wa... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 16,030

JBuddy Just as the Web has revolutionized information distribution and retrieval, instant messaging is revolutionizing communication. Instant messaging is a powerful tool that few enterprises or application developers have fully harnessed. Despite its pervasive use by millions all over the wo... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 22,297

* Error Recovery * Java developers have access to a variety of error detection tools, such as try/catch blocks and variants of the Exception class, but few mechanisms provide a structured, interactive recovery. As a result, users are frequently faced with frustrating application instability that can be d... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 11,318

Less > More Among geneticists there is an ongoing argument about which species is superior: humans or bacteria. Both are the end product of millions of years of evolutionary refinement; they just took separate routes on the road to survival. May. 5, 2004  Reads: 12,888

Java Trends - Exclusive Interview with Amy Fowler How can Swing be made more tenable to a broader range of developers? Amy Fowler, a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems and one of the founding members of the Java Swing GUI Toolkit, discusses Swing, JSF, and the Java Desktop Network Component project. 'Swing is indeed broad and f... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 38,192  Replies: 8

Harness the Power of Javadoc... High-performing software teams use code reviews to improve the quality of their code and to keep team members informed of what's going on in the larger application. However, keeping track of which packages, classes, and methods have been reviewed can be a real headache, especially if a... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 17,281

Preventing Reverse Engineering Your software may be under attack! Reverse engineers can't wait to get their hands on your binaries and learn their secrets. Okay, so that's a little melodramatic, but for many software companies like mine, there is a competitive advantage in our source code, so we don't ship source, r... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 17,129

Building the Ultimate Logging Solution Anyone who has dealt with complex enterprise applications knows the value of a good logging solution. Features such as consolidating log files, separating events, and turning debugging on or off all come free with a good logging API. May. 5, 2004  Reads: 24,283  Replies: 2

Managing the Unmanaged Hardly anyone ever thinks about application management frameworks until the application is running in a production environment and the application needs managing. The use of Java and J2EE has allowed business code to be written at lightning fast speed and application management is norm... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 14,373

Building a J2ME Multimedia Messaging Service Client The Wireless Messaging API (WMA) reference implementation supports short message service (SMS) text and binary messages, but leaves the implementation of the hot area of multimedia messaging untouched. This article will demonstrate how to build a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) clie... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 48,709

All's Quiet on the West Coast It was April 2, when I first heard the news that Sun and Microsoft had reached a settlement on their long-standing dispute over Java. When I first saw the headline, I honestly thought it was a leftover April Fool's joke, so I ignored it. It was only when I saw the words 'Microsoft and ... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 15,006  Replies: 1

Just Around the Riverbend Two conversations over the past few days started a train of thought about where Java is right now, as did the settlement between Microsoft and Sun, the new JCP revision, and the new 1.5 JDK. One conversation was with the author of a messaging system, talking about the use of his SDK to... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 14,666

Who Is Right About Java? Who is right about Java? Is it software executive Tod Nielsen, whose advice - in reference to J2EE - is 'simplify and accelerate'? Is it Eric S. Raymond, who says, as often and as loudly as possible, 'Let Java go' - i.e., open source it? Is it Javalobby's founder Rick Ross, who says, '... May. 5, 2004  Reads: 19,630

JDJ Exclusive: How Long Can BEA Survive Against IBM? (From JDJ May Print Edition) The annual Gartner Research Report analyzing the application server market share among leading vendors is expected to be out this month. Open-source JBoss has used its technical and business innovation in the J2EE app server market to take on the software i... Apr. 28, 2004  Reads: 48,371  Replies: 37

JDJ Exclusive: The Future Of Middleware & Tools How do five of IBM's most highly-placed executives, the five GMs of its Software Group, see the future unfolding in areas like grid and autonomic computing, security, systems management, application development, and SOAs? What's the current story with DB2, how do Tivoli and Lotus fit i... Apr. 28, 2004  Reads: 56,364  Replies: 12