Actually I would like to
do something more, for
instance, providing a
toolbar for my
application. First, I add
three buttons with the
same cut, copy, and paste
icons (no text for them,
according to the
Look-and-Feel Design
Guideli...
Sun and Google are going
to be teaming up to take
on Microsoft in its
holiest of holy markets,
the desktop. Could such
an alliance have been
dreamed of just one year
ago? The answer, of
course, is 'Yes!'
'Game-changing' is what a
...
My dear wife has just
started to learn to use
Java in her work and asks
me a lot of questions as
she begins her journey in
this wonderful language.
To almost all her
questions my answer is
the same: 'See Javadoc.'
In the past few years
there has been a
proliferation of
frameworks that allow for
lighter, faster, and
loosely coupled Java
projects. These
frameworks not only let
you decouple your Java
project from the
application server for
u...
Like most other
self-respecting
developers I had also
read the GoF book 'Design
Patterns,' including the
section on the visitor
pattern. However, when a
colleague came over to me
with a question, I could
not initially justify the
...
In a market that is
defined by today's tight
IT budgets, saving on
software licenses can
mean the difference
between financial failure
and success for a
software development
project. While our
corporate clients use
commercial-grad...
For various reasons, an
application may install a
security manager. Usually
it does so to guard
against malicious
third-party code either
installed or dynamically
downloaded at runtime. If
the application uses RMI
APIs, it's even re...
The world's first office
computer, known as LEO,
was created in the 1950s
by Lyons, the British
teashop giant. Its aim
was to replace the
thousands of clerks who
did the billing,
invoicing, and
stocktaking, and also
tracked the su...
This article presents a
data model based on a
Collection implementation
that can be used with
Swing components JList
and JComboBox. It also
discusses a method to use
these same concepts in
constructing the user
interface of an
application.
In the first two articles
of this series (see http:
//java.sys-con.com/read/1
08260.htm and http://java
.sys-con.com/read/124664.
htm), I started thinking
aloud about automating my
gas station using various
Java-related
technologies. Th...
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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