eam uses JavaServer Faces (JSF) as its web framework for many reasons. JSF is a standard technology in Java EE 5.0 and has a large ecosystem of users and vendors.
ahoo User Interface (YUI) is an open source JavaScript library for developing AJAX-based rich user interfaces. The new Yahoo Mail uses YUI, so you might imagine how powerful the library
n the past few years, some major Java-related developments have occurred in enterprise integration and messaging solutions. Several open source Java Message Service (JMS) solutions such as OpenMQ and ActiveMQ
avaFX, a new Sun Microsystems product family (including a scripting language, JavaFX Script), is optimized for implementing rich Internet applications for desktop and mobile devices. It comes bundled with the
s multi-core and multi-CPU systems become more prevalent, the opportunity to perform several tasks at once is now a reality. Unfortunately, the way most systems are designed it is not
n the past couple of years, data binding has emerged as an important concept for GUI development in Java. Its main objective is to simplify the task of syncing a
typical multi-threaded application in Java contains numerous synchronized methods and statements. They might also contain calls to the methods wait() and notify() that were introduced with Java 1.0, but these
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