wo years ago, the Swiss business software maker Abacus Research AG decided to port its complete product line from Borland’s Delphi to Java/Swing. The Abacus Delphi development team faced the
ike many companies, my company uses an object cache to store frequently accessed data in memory so the server doesn’t have to access the back-end database every time it handles
y last article discussed how to use J2SE 5.0’s new collection features, allowing you to designate a specific type to be used with a collection. Additionally, the new “for each”
o develop even a simple J2EE application, developers must write lots of boilerplate code (as Enterprise JavaBeans, or EJB, in Java) and set up a myriad configuration files (as deployment
n our shared quest for more highly productive methods of developing software, those of us in the Java community have looked to J2EE to provide solutions for the more challenging
y now, almost everyone in the Java community has heard about Jakarta Commons, the set of reusable classes that various Jakarta projects use. But did you know that these classes
ost software applications require a persistence layer, such as a relational database, to store user data for later retrieval. As a Java developer, you have many choices for your application’s
asperReports, a powerful, flexible open-source reporting engine, is easy to integrate into Java enterprise applications, but it lacks an integrated visual report editor. So, if you want to use JasperReports
he onslaught of Web services messaging and XML-based data transfer has led to a need to express these message exchanges in some structured way. The Web services Description Language (WSDL)