Code Reviews   17 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
Need to be sure your program really runs right? Oh sure, testing's a part of it, but so are code reviews. Sri Sankaran argues that research and experience prove that a standardized, effective code review process mitigates costs and produces better code.
Source: Java.net

Sample AJAX Components   16 Aug 2006 10:30 GMT
AJAX components are available bundled in the Sun Java Studio Creator software or from the AJAX BluePrints Resource Center. Try out the AJAX component catalog now.
Source: Sun

Greg Murray's Blog   16 Aug 2006 10:30 GMT
Greg Murray discusses five techniques to help you track, limit, or restrict access to your application's AJAX services.
Source: Sun

Profiling Your Applications with Eclipse Callisto   16 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
Callisto, a bundle of optional plugins for Eclipse, now comes with a profiling tool called the Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP). TPTP includes testing, tracing, performance monitoring, profiling, and static-code analysis tools. John Ferguson Smart offers this guided tour of how to use TPTP to speed up your apps.
Source: O'Reilly

Current CMS   15 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
Looking for a content management system? David E. Karam has taken a system built over the course of nearly nine years, originally built on Perl and flat files, and brought it to Java with proper database and JSP support. In this article, he introduces you to the currentcms project.
Source: Java.net

Manufacturing Java Objects with the Factory Method Design Pattern   14 Aug 2006 23:39 GMT
You need to instantiate certain objects from a pool of related objects, but you won't know which ones until runtime. Find out how the factory method design pattern can help you write this code.
Source: JavaBoutique

Using XTags to Add XSLT Transformations to Your JSP Web Applications   11 Aug 2006 23:09 GMT
You don't have to write repetitive manual code to display database tables or apply transformations to display XML documents in your JSP Web applications; the Jakarta XTags tag library provides an easy way to apply an XSLT stylesheet to XML data.
Source: DevX

Build a Low Overhead Test Bed for Your JDBC Code   11 Aug 2006 00:53 GMT
Testing your Java applications against a database can be a pretty painless endeavor thanks to the Cloudscape database built in to IBM's Rational Application Developer. For those who have an interest in this platform, this article will show you the ropes of setting up a simple test bed for your JDBC code.
Source: DevX

(Not So) Stupid Questions 12: What's in a Name   10 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
This "stupid question" is about the use of the "Java" name in open-source projects, Web sites, companies, and more.
Source: Java.net

Ant 1.7: Using Antlibs   09 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
Most Java developers use Ant to do builds and are familiar with its core tasks. But Ant's tasks tend toward an undesirable coupling: everything important had to be a core task because it was hard to distribute new plug-in tasks. Fortunately, Ant 1.7's new antlibs feature makes it much easier to distribute and use new Ant tasks. In this article, Kev Jackson shows you how to use, write, bundle, and test antlibs.
Source: O'Reilly