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JAVA Feedback Flash components are badly written; there are many undocumented bugs that you would never overcome, e.g., try adding a combobox to an accordion pane, or a menu inside of a scrollpane. The most awful truth about Flash components is that they are badly integrated with one another and put... Sep. 7, 2006  Reads: 11,690  Replies: 1

The JCP Program: Beyond the 300 Mark JavaOne has a catalyzing effect on Java developers: their enthusiasm and energies spike around the show; they ready their latest and greatest Java technology-based projects and solutions for the annual encounter with software programmers from around the world. Take for instance the JSR... Sep. 5, 2006  Reads: 10,706

Managing a Standardized Build Process Outside of the Eclipse IDE Building objects in the Eclipse IDE is simple - it's a point-and-click solution. However, as applications built on the Eclipse platform mature the need for building outside of the IDE increases. This need can be driven by the development team that is striving to perform agile developme... Sep. 1, 2006  Reads: 13,390

The Death of Mediocrity Computers can generally be characterized into two types: ones that are designed to have more than one user attached and those intended for a single user. In the beginning almost all computing was done on large multi-user machines, partly due to their expense, which precluded their use ... Aug. 30, 2006  Reads: 13,627

Java Feature — Building Real-Time Applications with Continuous Query Technology The client/server development model prevalent in the mid-1990's resulted in extremely easy-to-build rich GUI applications that interacted directly with a relational database. 4GL tools such as Visual Basic and PowerBuilder let even junior developers visually compose both the presentati... Aug. 28, 2006  Reads: 28,570  Replies: 5

SOA Web Services - Data Access Service Service Data Objects (SDOs) have become a foundation technology for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Recently, BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Iona, Siebel, and Sybase announced their support for an SOA-enabling framework specification named Service Component Architecture (SCA). SD O provid... Aug. 27, 2006  Reads: 25,879  Replies: 4

Java Feature — A Generic JMS Listener for Apache Axis 1.x Unlike the HTTP protocol there's no stable default JMS listener for invoking the Web Services exposed in Apache Axis 1.x using JMS (Java Message Service) as the transport protocol - other than the one provided merely for demo purposes. Aug. 24, 2006  Reads: 15,425

Detecting J2EE Problems Before They Happen This article introduces a new form of analysis for Java EE applications: a runtime abstract application model derived automatically from an application server using stored knowledge of Java EE construction. The model is used dynamically to do extensive automatic checks for a range of c... Aug. 22, 2006  Reads: 15,550  Replies: 1

Java Feature — Jakarta Struts & JavaServer Faces A previous article compared Jakarta Struts and JavaServer Faces implementations of five simple design patterns for list selection. (JDJ, Vol. 11, Issue 3). Long lists and ordered selections require a more complex design pattern. This pattern displays available items in one list and cho... Aug. 20, 2006  Reads: 26,902  Replies: 4

Integral Java: A Single Solution for Bypassing the Pitfalls of Split Stacks Java, in the form of the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), has become a prerequisite for all future mobile handsets for at least the next seven to nine years. Not only will the core applications needed for the user experience be created in Java, it will also serve as the basis for ... Aug. 20, 2006  Reads: 8,341  Replies: 2

Where Are the High-Level Open Source Design Tools? In answer to the question 'Where are the high-level Open Source design tools for Java?' I believe that they're emerging from efforts at Eclipse.org. These efforts began with the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) in 2002, and have been building momentum ever since, with the addition of t... Aug. 16, 2006  Reads: 9,396

Java Editorial — Unofficial History of Programming: '96 - '06 I want back in the '90th...seriously. Ten years ago I didn't know Java: I'd been using PowerBuilder and was able to program pretty much everything in this RAD object-oriented tool. To find a job back then, all I needed to have on my résumé was PB, a single framework (PFC), and SQL. ... Aug. 14, 2006  Reads: 15,590  Replies: 2