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JavaFX Progress: It’s Academic

“hese days if you look at the way a lot of shops work, they have really two kinds of people that go into developing web sites” James Gosling, vice president

Visualizing Data: Self-Documenting Ant files

I have always been fascinated by informational graphics. Mathematicians aside, most people find properly rendered information graphics easier to assimilate and quicker to understand than raw data, in whatever form

JavaFX Enters the RIA Race

ich Internet Application or RIAs are all the rage in application development circles now. How do you make web applications behave like more traditional desktop applications? You remember desktop applications

kXML-RPC Enables Service-Oriented Mobile Computing

ervice orientation is sweeping through modern enterprise environments like the Black Plague swept through Europe (hopefully the parallels end there). At the same time, enterprises seem increasingly interested in supporting

Introducing XQJ: A Java API for XQuery

Query is a declarative language for querying XML that’s similar to SQL for querying relational data. Most Java developers are familiar with JDBC, which provides a standard Java API to