an Francisco, Calif.?Sun crossed the open source Java finish line when it announced it was releasing the remaining bits of the Java SE (Standard Edition) Development Kit under version 2
ou probably are reading this article because you want to convert a Java application into a Windows service. I can relate. Recently, I wanted to turn a Java server application
omputing today is moving toward multi-core systems. A multi-core CPU allows the containing computer to exhibit the same thread-level parallelism as a system with multiple CPUs (see Figure 1), which
any web applications exchange data as XML, but that data is usually stored in and queried from relational databases, CRM, ERP, proprietary repositories, and a hodgepodge of other systems. Unfortunately,
ou very rarely hear “quality of life” and “developer” in the same sentence. This is mostly because developers lack tools (not skills) that easily and concisely allow them to identify
he Java Persistence API is a new addition to the Java specification that updates Java’s method of performing object/relational mapping. In my first article on JPA, I explained the basics
hen I heard about the two new navigable interfaces, NavigableSet and NavigableMap, that were going to be released with the collections framework in Java SE 6, I wondered how I
few months ago, I was teaching a class on JDBC. After a particularly tedious JDBC lab, I alluded to the existence of many Java persistence frameworks to help Java developers
oncurrency is a well-known technique for improving the performance of many J2EE applications. For example, Web 2.0 mashup applications must aggregate data from multiple sources. Performing the aggregation in a