Debugging Tips for Applications Built With Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7   29 Jul 2005 11:14 GMT
Learn how to best configure the debugger and compiler settings, initiate debugging sessions, and effectively debug JSP pages, servlets, and multithreaded issues.
Source: Sun

Discover RELAX NG, A Simple Schema Solution   29 Jul 2005 00:40 GMT
With the goals of compact syntax and compatibility, the Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX NG) eases the pain of working with cumbersome DTDs and XSDs.
Source: DevX

Getting Started With the Java Rule Engine API (JSR 94): Toward Rule-Based Applications   28 Jul 2005 11:31 GMT
You can create agile business applications by combining the Java platform and business rule technology, managing the business behavior outside the source code. JSR 94 provides a vendor-neutral Java platform interface to access a rule engine.
Source: Sun

Creating and Managing an Open Source Project, Part 1   28 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Do you want to kick off your own open source project? The tools can be provided by java.net, and it helps if you know how to best use them. In this first part of a series of article on open source project management, Michael Nascimento Santos helps you consider whether you need to create a new project, what license to use, and how to navigate java.net's project-creation tools.
Source: Java.net

Hibernate Criteria API: Multi-Criteria Search Made Easy   28 Jul 2005 02:55 GMT
The Hibernate Criteria API, a powerful and flexible alternative to traditional HQL queries, makes writing all those tricky multi-criteria search functions—as well as dynamic queries in general—much easier.
Source: DevX

Web Services Messaging with Apache Axis2: Concepts and Techniques   27 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
The messaging strategies needed for web services vary, and Apache Axis2 has addressed this problem by creating basic building blocks from which many messaging schemes can be built. Srinath Perera and Ajith Ranabahu show how it works.
Source: O'Reilly

Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 3: Customizing a Wizard   27 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Emmanuel Proulx's series on Eclipse plugin development continues by showing how to put together a useful data model and a wizard GUI.
Source: O'Reilly

LCD Text: Anti-Aliasing on the Fringe   26 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Anti-aliasing helps with the appearance of text, but on LCD monitors you can do even better: you can use the spatial arrangement of the red, green, and blue parts of each pixel to achieve an even better anti-aliasing effect. This feature is coming to Java in Mustang, and in this article, Chet Haase explains how it works.
Source: Java.net

Manage Messages from MQ Server with MQ Java Classes   26 Jul 2005 01:01 GMT
Use this code to manage messages from MQ server with MQ Java classes.
Source: DevX

Opinion: Eclipse Fails to Meet the Enterprise Java Developer's Needs   26 Jul 2005 00:27 GMT
This one-time Eclipse developer who's tried a variety of Java IDEs over the years now believes Eclipse is a functionally handicapped IDE that's languishing under the influence of commercial interests.
Source: DevX