Obtaining Wireless News with J2ME and PHP   14 Jun 2005 21:36 GMT
J2ME and PHP are both powerful technologies used to develop applications for mobile devices and Web applications, respectively. In this article, you'll see how to make them work together by developing a simple and useful application that retrieves the latest news from the Web and displays that on a mobile device.
Source: DevX

An Open Source Database Benchmark   14 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
It's hard to make decisions about databases when you don't have an accurate way to measure their performance vis-à-vis your application's requirements. PolePosition offers a solution--an open source database benchmarking tool that you can customize with your own tests. In this article, Rick Grehan takes it out for a spin.
Source: Java.net

Review: Omnicore X-develop Professional 1.0   11 Jun 2005 01:17 GMT
Today's heterogeneous environments require developers to be able to switch between multiple environments, thus incurring the need for multiple IDEs. But Omnicore's X-develop may make the hassle of multiple IDEs a thing of the past.
Source: DevX

Review: Omnicore X-develop Professional 1.0   10 Jun 2005 23:54 GMT
Today's heterogeneous environments require developers to be able to switch between multiple environments, thus incurring the need for multiple IDEs. But Omnicore's X-develop may make the hassle of multiple IDEs a thing of the past. Drew Falkman investigates.
Source: JavaBoutique

Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX) with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition   10 Jun 2005 11:33 GMT
Learn how to use Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to create rich Internet applications.
Source: Sun

Happy Anniversary, java.net   09 Jun 2005 12:48 GMT
Your pictures of Duke and family celebrating java.net's second anniversary.
Source: Java.net

Beginning J2ME: From Novice to Expert, 3rd Edition   09 Jun 2005 11:47 GMT
Many visionaries feel that mobile applications are the wave of the future. In the third edition of "Beginning J2ME: From Novice to Expert", authors Sing Li and Jonathan Knudsen uncover a wealth of arcane J2ME mobile topics, something that separates this book from the rest of the pack.
Source: Sun

Prevalence: Transparent, Fault-Tolerant Object Persistence   08 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Want to persist your objects, with transactional integrity? You probably assume you're going to be using a database, but not so fast--for lighter uses, particularly for prototyping and testing, the idea of "prevalence" may make more sense. Jim Paterson introduces it by way of Prevayler, a popular prevalence framework.
Source: O'Reilly

Playing Movies in a Java 3D World, Part 2:   08 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
In part one of this two-part series, Andrew Davison walked through how to use JMF to play movie clips inside of a Java 3D scene. In this second and final installment, he discusses another version of the movie screen, using QuickTime for Java. Andrew is the author of Killer Game Programming in Java.
Source: O'Reilly

Email Validation Using Regular Expression   07 Jun 2005 04:44 GMT
This tip demonstrates how to validate email using regular expression.
Source: DevX