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E-mail - Problem Solved or Created? At the annual Alan Turing memorial lecture given by Grady Booch in London last month, he chose as his subject, The promise, the limits, and the beauty of software. It was an excellent address in which one of the themes was that for each of the incredible advances that software has brou... Apr. 16, 2007  Reads: 11,123  Replies: 1

JDJ Cover Story — Wait-Time Analysis Method Until recently, tuning IT application performance has been largely a guessing game. This is both surprising and unacceptable considering the relentless focus IT organizations put on cost-efficiency and productivity. The traditional approaches to database and application tuning that inv... Apr. 14, 2007  Reads: 12,918

Looking Inside Stuck Threads Thread pooling is a common technique that modern application servers adopted to run Java applications efficiently. Even application servers not implemented by Java share the concept of using system resources more compactly to maximize overall throughput. Besides the underlying programm... Apr. 12, 2007  Reads: 18,456  Replies: 2

What Is SDO? In Part 1 of this article we introduced SDO, looking at its origins and then reviewing some of its features through a scenario based on medical investigations. In Part 2 we'll go on to examine further features of SDO in such a way as to add property values to a data object beyond those... Apr. 10, 2007  Reads: 18,480

How to Deliver Composite Applications with Java, WS-BPEL & SOA Java is an outstanding language for building components, services, and many applications that are vendor and platform neutral. The vast adoption of Java technology by the industry in the past decade is a testament to the power of Java. Development of new applications, services, and com... Apr. 9, 2007  Reads: 25,487

Top Cluster Considerations One of the greatest strengths of Java Platform 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers is the ability to scale solutions to meet increased performance and availability demands. The inherent clustering and failover capabilities built into products such as the IBM WebSphere Appl... Apr. 6, 2007  Reads: 12,702

Is Blogging Just the Tip of the Co-Technology Iceberg? Gartner says that the total number of bloggers will peak during the first half of this year at around 100 million, causing John R. Patrick to ask rhetorically whether spring 2007 truly is The Peak of Blogging? Apr. 4, 2007  Reads: 19,729

JCP.org Web Site Gets a New Life It's well known in Java community neighborhoods that the jcp.org site has been the communication lifeline for the JCP program since its inception. It's been the virtual meeting place for members, the primary source of information and updates about Java standards, and the spot where key... Mar. 7, 2007  Reads: 8,568