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JCP Launches New Program
The JavaOne Conference was the stage for many Java premiers and launches. One of them was the Star Spec Leads program initiated by the JCP.
The G.E. of Software
At JavaOne this year, one of the biggest announcements (albeit this one had nothing really to do with Java) was the acquisition of SeeBeyond by Sun Microsystems. It looks like Sun is putting its cash, which it has plenty of, to go...
Using Metrics to Optimize J2EE Application Performance in Production
Despite the increasingly widespread adoption of J2EE for enterprise applications, measuring their performance in production continues to be a black art. Without knowing what to look for, many people measure anything that seems use...
AOP Technology Update
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is undeniably one of the coolest things to happen in the software technology in a long time. AOP has been called the 'third dimension of programming' (copyright by Frank Sauer, Technical Resource...
Setting Up a Java Shop: How To Build Better Software Faster
Three times in recent years I've joined an organization that was relatively new to Java development and missing some basic infrastructure elements that I'd relied on in previous development efforts. These elements include utility ...
Is Mobile Java a Reality?
'Java on mobile phones' has been the hottest topic at the JavaOne conference for the past several years. This year was no exception and a large part of the show floor was designated as the 'Wireless Village.' With tens of billions ...
SOA + EDA = Open Source ESB: ServiceMix(*)
Today's enterprise applications are distributed by design. For applications to interact with one another over networks optimally, they require Service Oriented and Event Driven Architectures made up of loosely federated business r...
Observed Benefits of the Unified Modeling Language
Over the past 12 months, I have observed significant benefits using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) when developing Rich Internet Applications using Macromedia's Flash Platform and JRun (Java application server).
Reflections on Debugging
This rather pedagogically worded article is a collection of my thoughts on debugging Java software, the programming patterns I have used, some useful APIs, and techniques.
A Strategy for Aspect-Oriented Error Handling
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a new, thought-provoking architecture paradigm still in its youth. One of AOP's primary goals is to improve the development of object-oriented systems by refactoring related lines of code that ...
The Simplicity of EJB 3.0
Over the past few years, the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification has evolved significantly. In the early days of EJB, application developers faced a burden of overwhelming complexity: they had to manage several component inte...
J2SE and Open Source - Living Together in Perfect Harmony
Java has been the springboard for some of the most successful open source projects today including JBoss, NetBeans, and Eclipse. Several folks though have felt the missing piece was an actual open source implementation of the runt...
FrameResizer
This article presents a Java/Swing component implementation of a feature that is ubiquitous in nearly all desktop applications, particularly Windows applications - an area in the lower right portion of a window (Frame) that can be...
Interface All Boundaries
Experienced developers know many of the benefits of and motivations for using interface-based design principles. Interfaces provide for polymorphic behavior by hiding the implementation and only exposing the relevant public methods ...
Magic Is Golden
Magic, like software, depends on understanding the audience. Why not use a few techniques from magic to understand users?
It's Official: Welcome to the 'Technology Bounce Back'
All the myriad commentators who monitor Internet technologies and the i-Technology companies on the NASDAQ doubtless have their own private cluster of indicators that they use to take a weather-check on the overall state of the in...

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