The New RMI   06 Oct 2005 04:00 GMT
If you remember RMI from its earliest incarnations, then you understand its usefulness for distributed computing, but maybe not its latest innovations. In this article, Krishnan Viswanath looks at J2SE 5.0's new RMI features, including SSL-based secure RMI, launch-on-demand integration with xinetd, and stubless operation.
Source: Java.net

Eclipse Web Tools   05 Oct 2005 04:00 GMT
The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project aims to make web application development easier by attacking the problem from the tool side, providing Eclipse-based tools for creating and manipulating EJBs (optionally exposed as web services), data stores, and JSPs. Committers Jeffrey Liu and Lawrence Mandel introduce this new toolset.
Source: O'Reilly

What Is Spring, Part 1   05 Oct 2005 04:00 GMT
In this first of a two-part series excerpted from Spring: A Developer's Notebook, authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland help you understand how you can use Spring to produce clean, effective applications. In part 1, they take a simple application and show you how to automate it and enable it for Spring.
Source: O'Reilly

The Artisan and the Artilect, Part 2   04 Oct 2005 04:00 GMT
Max Goff continues his series on the future of artificial intelligence and compares the roles of the human craftsman and the human-created superior intellect.
Source: Java.net

How to Pass Parameters from a Java Applet to an HTML File   04 Oct 2005 02:38 GMT
This tip includes a sample applet and a sample HTML file that will show you how to pass parameters from a Java applet to an HTML file.
Source: DevX

Extend the JDK Classes with Jakarta Commons, Part I   04 Oct 2005 02:25 GMT
Explore the components in the Jakarta Commons set of reusable classes and you'll be convinced that most of them should be part of the JDK. Learn which ones you should use in your projects.
Source: DevX

New Splash-Screen Functionality in Mustang   01 Oct 2005 12:01 GMT
A standard part of any GUI application, the splash screen lets the user know that the application is starting. Learn how Java SE 6 (code name Mustang) allows the application to show the splash screen even before the virtual machine starts.
Source: Sun

Sun Microsystems Talks With Li Moore of Google   01 Oct 2005 12:01 GMT
Software engineer Li Moore discusses Google's switch to J2SE 5.0: "This release is purely an improvement, in terms of language features, libraries, stability, performance, and tools."
Source: Sun