Growing NetBeans: A Conversation With Trung Duc Tran, Chief Architect   28 Jun 2005 23:04 GMT
Trung Duc Tran, Lead Architect of the NetBeans IDE, discusses the challenges of producing a quality tool.
Source: Sun

Port Your Java MIDlets to a Palm Device   27 Jun 2005 23:16 GMT
The Palm platform is a significant portion of the pervasive computing space. Porting your J2ME MIDlets as pilot resource code opens the door to this large Palm device audience with little coding effort.
Source: DevX

Gluecode: Bridging The App-Server Stack Gap   24 Jun 2005 22:41 GMT
With the acquisition of Gluecode Software and its emerging technology, IBM is poised to fill the void between commercial-grade WebSphere deployments and roll-your-own open-source project integration.
Source: DevX

Inversion of Control: A Mechanism for Highly Flexible Applications   24 Jun 2005 21:00 GMT
Find out how using the Inversion of Control method can help you loosely couple your application's interacting components for maximum flexiblity.
Source: JavaBoutique

Use Reflection to Validate Assembly References—Before Your Customers Do   23 Jun 2005 19:09 GMT
Developers are familiar with reflection as a way to create object instances, and discover and call object properties and methods, but reflection's usefulness extends even further—you can also use it to create a diagnostic tool to discover and validate dependencies for deployed code, and to report missing dependencies.
Source: DevX

June 21, 2005 Learning Java 2D Part I   23 Jun 2005 11:54 GMT
The easy-to-use Java 2D API can help you create some stunningly high-quality graphics. This article, part 1 of 3, helps you become familiar with shapes, lines, and the Java 2D rendering pipeline.
Source: Sun

RAD That Ain't Bad: Domain-Driven Development with Trails   23 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Ruby on Rails has stoked much envy in Java programmers weary of convoluted web application frameworks. The idea behind the Trails project is to bring Rails' domain-driven development concepts to Java. In this introduction, Chris Nelson shows how easy it is to get started.
Source: Java.net

Java Turns 10: The Developer Retrospective   22 Jun 2005 21:03 GMT
Java passed the 10-year milestone this May. DevX asked developers to reflect on the language's first decade, assess where it stands today, and speculate where it's going. The diversity of responses—including industry notables from within Sun, IBM, BEA, and Borland—indicates that Java is as vital as ever.
Source: DevX

Java City: The Java Enterprise Ecosystem   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Should we worry about promoting a healthy Java community? Or is everything just fine in Java City? Jim Farley asks you to weigh in on these questions, and others, in the Talkbacks, and next week at JavaOne. He plans a followup article summarizing what you have to say. Your comments may help to shape content in Jim's upcoming book, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, due out in the fall.
Source: O'Reilly

An Ant Modular Build Environment for Enterprise Applications   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Most Java developers already use Ant for their builds, but are you getting everything you could out of this tool? With a complex enterprise application, in which classes may be used in several tiers, it's important to control where the code lives and how it gets built, so you can build .jars with just the code needed for each tier. Les Hazlewood shows how this approach leads to faster builds and downloads, and even catches errant dependencies.
Source: O'Reilly