any view Web services as the backbone to a new generation of cross-platform, cross-language distributed computing applications. In fact, Sun defines Web services as “a well-defined, modular, encapsulated function used
Doclet is a code generation engine that enables a concept known as Attribute-Oriented Programming. To use XDoclet, a programmer adds metadata (attributes) for classes and methods within the JavaDoc for
hese days, using sophisticated application frameworks to build your network server applications is understandable, but sometimes such frameworks are overkill. When you strip networking down to its bare essentials, network
uring the past decade, I’ve witnessed remarkable change in the software industry’s overall approach to persistence. Though measuring Plain Old Java Object (POJO) solutions in terms of market share is
hen it comes to app server platforms, people can?and do?debate endlessly about which is the best for running enterprise-class applications. Is it the Microsoft .NET platform? Or one of many
he Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5 (codename: Tiger) has some language-level enhancements that Sun designed to make programmers’ lives much easier. This article takes a gander at some
he Chain of Responsibility (COR) pattern is a behavioral pattern for decoupling requests from request handlers. It transparently routes requests to the appropriate handler and can (depending on the dispatching
wo major limitations in the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification make it difficult to develop multi-threaded EJB applications: New user threads cannot be created inside EJB Container. EJB methods cannot be
ou can verify that your Web-based Java application accepts the proper inputs from the HTTP request stream and displays the proper results to the HTTP response stream by performing black