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Fear of the Dark As I'm pathologically fond of pointing out - I'm a child of a bygone era. Oh, I'm not old enough to remember the time before Sputnik, light bulbs, or the coagulation of the planets from protostellar dust clouds, but I surely do re... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 10,808

Better Scaling with New I/O With J2SE Version 1.4, Java finally has a scalable I/O API. Not that the old API was an absolute failure (Java's tremendous success in the application server market refutes this), but some of the old API's properties led to drastic ... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 14,102

Programming Neural Networks in Java Computers can perform many operations a lot faster than humans. However, there are many tasks in which the computer falls considerably short. One such task is the interpretation of graphic information. A preschool child can easily... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 22,474  Replies: 3

We've Built the House If you read my editorial last month (JDJ, Vol. 7, issue 4), you'll recall that I was trying to work out just who the Java community was and whether or not you or I feel a part of it. Well, I think I met the community at JavaOne 2002. May. 1, 2002  Reads: 10,626

First Impressions - JaveOne 2002 Show Report Sun's seventh annual JavaOne conference was held March 25-28 at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. This was the sixth Java conference I attended and it was interesting to compare it with the previous shows. May. 1, 2002  Reads: 9,100

The Critical Role of Application Architecture Whether you're a developer writing code, a manager guiding a project, or a customer giving requirements, you're familiar with the steps needed to successfully create a business application. Often referred to as the application-dev... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 10,526  Replies: 1

Optimizing Database Performance in J2EE Applications The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is the platform of choice for implementing scalable and reliable enterprise applications from reusable components. But Java developers building enterprise-class J2EE applications face a quandary. May. 1, 2002  Reads: 17,714  Replies: 15

J2EE FAQ EJB 2.0 is the latest release of the Enterprise JavaBean specification. The major releases of the EJB specification have been 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. EJB 2.0 adds several crucial features to version 1.1, including message-driven beans, ... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 8,428  Replies: 1

Are You Being Served? I'll never buy a Casio watch again. Not just because they break down - that's just the luck of the draw - but because of their extremely poor service. I've spent months trying to get my $200 watch back from their service center, but... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 11,565  Replies: 1

JDBC 3.0 - Something for Everyone There was no ticker tape parade to accompany the release of the JDBC 3.0 specification, but many will be pleasantly surprised at its list of enhancements that include everything from performance-tuning options to support for exten... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 14,463

Reflections JavaOne is over, and it's time to sit back and reflect...and to sift through the hundreds of press releases and announcements that ricochet around the Internet like balls around a pinball machine. While I couldn't be there myself,... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 10,539

Women's Work This month we focus on women in the engineering world. In this competitive, male-dominated world, female engineers face a variety of challenges. Many of these challenges have less to do with getting the job done than with getting ... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 9,300

Manifest Destiny Releasing Java applications can be a real challenge. Fortunately, Java provides a rich set of features for packaging and deploying applications that can simplify the release process significantly. May. 1, 2002  Reads: 19,095

Java-Miner by CAST It's unfortunate that programmers come and go at an alarming rate in the IT industry, leaving code that must be maintained by someone who quite frequently had no hand in writing it. Software engineers using UML have models on how ... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 12,966

Enterprise JavaBeans Although I've been following EJB 2.0 very closely, it was only recently that I walked into a project that was the perfect venue for its new features, such as the much enhanced container-managed persistence and local interfaces. An... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 10,920

My Kingdom for a Phone The whole wireless space has been an interesting one to keep an eye on for the past couple of years, in particular how it relates to the Java space. Sure, we've heard wonderful tales about the vast millions of phones in Japan and ho... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 11,176  Replies: 8

Keep Mobile Data and Applications in Sync with Java Here's a quiz: consider a physician accessing different patients' histories on a PDA while making rounds at a Manhattan hospital versus a field engineer whose responsibility is to monitor and repair sections of an oil pipeline tha... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 10,150

OSGI: The Last Mile of Software Deployment Making good software is hard enough, as most software developers can testify. There is, however, one aspect of software that is invariably even harder than we expect: How do we get the software into the target environment? May. 1, 2002  Reads: 13,238

Jini Surrogate as a Platform for J2ME Games In Part 1 of this article (JDJ, Vol. 7, issue 3) I introduced the idea of using the surrogate architecture within Jini as a platform for J2ME games. I also showed how to start Madison, Sun's reference implementation, and how to conn... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 12,861

Edge to Edge With the next generation of wireless devices entering the market, the opportunities for Java developers are great. Analysts are predicting that the demand for wireless applications is set to explode, with over 170 million U.S. users... May. 1, 2002  Reads: 7,670