ava recently celebrated its 10th birthday at JavaOne in San Francisco. It’s come a long way in that time, and a decade is a long time in technology. It’s a
eb services have evolved into a standard means for integrating organizations using differing technologies running on heterogeneous systems and frameworks. A Web service is a business-logic component designed to be
orporations encounter various scenarios in which they need parallel processing to achieve high throughput and better response times. For example, various financial institutions perform reconciliation as batch jobs at the
uilding enterprise Java applications is a challenging process in which you build, package, and deploy multiple components to a variety of environments. And these components will frequently depend on one
ulti-criteria search functionalities, which allow combinations of many optional criteria fields, are common in modern Web-enabled business applications (see Sidebar 1. When to Use Multi-Criteria Searches). An example of this
any developers who work on high-volume transactional software (such as real-time financial or accounting systems) are skeptical of using Java’s System.currentTimeMillis() method for capturing transaction times. You’ll often hear the
t’s really not surprising that the first “killer app” in the world of personal computing was the spreadsheet. After all, a table filled with numbers is one of the simplest
San Francisco, Calif.?Sun claims 4.5 million Java developers worldwide, but apparently that’s not nearly enough. “It’s to our competitive strategic advantage to cultivate the largest community in the world,” said
ay 2005 marked 10 years since Sun first introduced Java technology to the world. In the decade to follow, the language begat a platform, which begat a community, which begat