


essage-oriented middleware (MOM) decouples applications by allowing them to communicate using one of two messaging models: point-to-point messaging and publish/subscribe messaging. The models differ in fundamental ways, but neither requires

nnotations have been part of the Spring Model-View-Controller (MVC) Framework since Spring 2.0. In Spring, annotations can greatly reduce the amount of XML bean configuration and wiring needed. Given the

uilding on my previous article Yahoo’s Rich web UIs for Java Developers, which discussed how to use various Yahoo User Interface (YUI) web components for setup and design, this article


evice fragmentation is an issue that plagues the mobile application developer. With the thousands of devices on the market, it is difficult to know which devices can host a new

ith the recent release of the JavaFX Software Developer Kit 1.1, Sun also released the long awaited JavaFX Mobile platform. Through a Java-like scripting language (JavaFX Script) and a single

ost server-side applications require the ability to process tasks concurrently, which improves performance and increases utilization of hardware resources. In early versions of Java (1.4 or earlier), developers needed to

he web is experiencing a rapid trend towards AJAX and rich Internet applications (RIAs). With AJAX as a tool for RIAs, developers can now deliver much richer content over the