Interaction Happens: Prototyping Techniques   23 Aug 2005 04:00 GMT
Do you prototype your GUIs? Should you? A great prototype can help work out the kinks in the flow of a GUI. But it can also get rushed into production as a seemingly (but not really) ready product, if you do too good a job of showing how your app will work. In this installment of "Interaction Happens," Jonathan Simon surveys the range of prototype options available to the GUI developer.
Source: Java.net

Upload Files with Struts, Store Them with Hibernate   19 Aug 2005 23:18 GMT
Every Web developer has had to implement a customer's file upload functionality in a project at least once. This article explains all the bottlenecks involved in this task and provides functional, easy code you can use in your own projects.
Source: JavaBoutique

J2SE 5.0 Adoption   18 Aug 2005 11:52 GMT
Thinking of migrating to J2SE 5.0 but just need a little more information? We have aggregated J2SE 5.0 articles, tips, features, white papers and more to help make the process that much easier.
Source: Sun

Reasons to Migrate to J2SE 5.0 (Tiger)   18 Aug 2005 11:52 GMT
The J2SE 1.4 platform was great, but J2SE 5.0 is even better. This article describes why developers should migrate to J2SE 5.0.
Source: Sun

What's New in EJB 3.0   18 Aug 2005 04:00 GMT
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 breaks with many traditions, freeing developers from deployment descriptors, boilerplate methods, and other hassles, in favor of annotation-powered declarative programming. In this article, Krishna Srinivasan looks at 3.0's major differences.
Source: Java.net

Use Obfuscation to Improve the Size, Performance, and Security of Your J2ME Applications   17 Aug 2005 22:08 GMT
Are you working too hard to improve the footprint and performance of your J2ME application? Perhaps you have overlooked a readily available Java tool. Obfuscation may not only help you improve the size and performance of your application, it also gives you security over your intellectual property.
Source: DevX

Introduction to the ASM 2.0 Bytecode Framework   17 Aug 2005 04:00 GMT
J2SE 5.0 made major changes to the language, and version 2.0 of the ASM bytecode manipulation toolkit is well-suited to handle them. In this article, Eugene Kuleshov shows how ASM 2.0 makes working with bytecode easier, and even offers an example of how to map the external dependencies in an arbitrary .jar file.
Source: O'Reilly

When JMX Is Overkill, Build a Lightweight Monitoring Framework   16 Aug 2005 04:11 GMT
A monitoring server is critical to any server-side infrastructure, be it an e-commerce or a telecom solution. Learn how to build a DIY (do-it-yourself) monitoring system using an extensible object-oriented framework.
Source: DevX

Earth Animations for Education from NASA   16 Aug 2005 04:00 GMT
You've seen the beautiful images of Earth from space taken by NASA astronauts and satellites. By viewing a series of images one after another like frames of a movie, you can replay and study changes due to weather, natural events, and human activities. This article describes how to write Java software that uses the OpenGL graphics interface to display these images on a 3D globe.
Source: Java.net

Release Virtual Machine Resources   16 Aug 2005 03:13 GMT
Failing to release virtual machine resources results in a 'memory leak.'
Source: DevX