Write Adaptive, Dynamic Code Using Reflection   31 Mar 2005 23:22 GMT
Java's Reflection API allows you to write code that adapts to runtime conditions. And you don't have to be working in a large-scale application to reap its benefits, either. Find out how reflection can allow your applications to be more robust and flexible.
Source: DevX

Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 2: Simple GUI Elements   30 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
Eclipse is largely composed of plugins, but you can't just write any arbitrary code and have Eclipse magically incorporate it. In part two of his series on Eclipse, Emmanuel Proulx introduces Eclipse's "extension points" by showing how to create toolbar buttons, menu items, and dialogs.
Source: O'Reilly

WS-Security in the Enterprise, Part 2: The Framework   30 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
Denis Pilupchuk continues his series on developing a WS-Security toolkit by developing a general framework to match the needs identified in part one and by starting to map WSSE features to Java objects.
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Make Your Servlet Code Reusable   30 Mar 2005 00:30 GMT
Find out how you can save time by implementing your logic in the service() method.
Source: DevX

Web Wizard Component, Part 2: The View   29 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
A GUI wizard is something that's surprisingly tricky to get right in a web application. In the conclusion of this series, Michael Jouravlev takes the model from part one and builds out the user interface with Struts, addressing some interesting web usability problems along the way.
Source: Java.net

iFrames + JSP = Enhanced Web Content Retrieval   29 Mar 2005 00:50 GMT
Used with JavaScript and JSP code, iFrames elegantly resolve the "hang" issue that occurs when a Web application fetches values from the server.
Source: DevX

Boxing Conversion in J2SE 5.0   24 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
J2SE 5.0's autoboxing feature liberates you from the hassle of bundling your primitives into wrapper objects in various situations (like putting them in collections), but autoboxing doesn't always behave as you might expect. Krishna Srinivasan has details on how this milestone feature really works.
Source: Java.net

Flexible Event Delivery with Executors   23 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
Event-handling is critical to any GUI application, and many developers know the hazards of making a method call to unknown or poorly behaved code from the event-dispatch thread. J2SE 5.0's concurrency utilities offer more fine-grained control over how code executes. Andrew Thompson applies that to offer better ways to handle events.
Source: O'Reilly

Java Component Development: A Conceptual Framework   23 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
In general terms, a component is one or more classes with an external API that satisfy some requirement. But how do you build components that are really practical--that handle configuration changes or third-party integration well? Palash Ghosh has some ideas about the concepts behind components.
Source: O'Reilly

Storing Request-specific Data Without Using ServletRequest   22 Mar 2005 23:48 GMT
Find out how you can work around storing request-specific attributes when you don't have access to the current request's ServletRequest instance.
Source: DevX