Open Sourcing Java Platform, Micro Edition: A Conversation With Sun's Senior Director of Mobile and Embedded Platforms, Shannon Lynch   13 Jan 2007 11:16 GMT
Shannon Lynch, senior director of mobile and embedded platforms at Sun Microsystems, discusses the value of open sourcing the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME).
Source: Sun

Create Great-Looking GUIs With NetBeans IDE 5.5   13 Jan 2007 11:16 GMT
Learn how NetBeans IDE 5.5 GUI Builder's Free Design layout mode and GroupLayout manager help you create platform-independent designs for user interfaces. New features simplify internationalization and reuse of GUI components in Java SE 6 or ealier versions of the Java platform.
Source: Sun

The POJO Container: POJO Clustering at the JVM Level   11 Jan 2007 04:35 GMT
POJO clustering at the JVM level not only provides a simple way for applications to achieve scale-out, but also sets the stage for a stack of enterprise-scale services and practices based on simple POJOs—the POJO container.
Source: DevX

Read Entries from JAR/ZIP Archives with the URL Class   09 Jan 2007 23:05 GMT
This tip shows you how to display the entries from a JAR/ZIP archive using the java.net.URL class.
Source: DevX

Transparent State Management Using the Decorator Pattern   09 Jan 2007 05:00 GMT
Storing state in the session makes sense at first, but can become a burden to manage properly, and can make more of your application stateful than you originally intended. Sharfudeen Ashraf shows how a servlet filter can be used to provide transparent state management.
Source: Java.net

New JDBC SQL/XML Features Improve XML Data Handling   08 Jan 2007 20:38 GMT
One of the most noteworthy updates to JDBC 4 is the support for the XML data type, which improves XML data handling and reduces development time.
Source: DevX

Go Inside the Java Real-Time System   04 Jan 2007 04:43 GMT
Real-time Java is about more than applications that need to be fast. Find out what real-time requirements actually are and get an in-depth look at what Sun Microsystem's real-time Java can do for you.
Source: DevX

New Technologies for Ajax and Web Application Development: Project jMaki   03 Jan 2007 11:23 GMT
Project jMaki helps you create and reuse Ajax-enabled widgets to create interactive and dynamic web applications more effectively on the Java EE platform.
Source: Sun

Discovering a Java Application's Security Requirements   03 Jan 2007 05:00 GMT
Java security manager policy files are powerful and flexible, but rather grueling and error-prone to write by hand. In this article Mark Petrovic employs a novel approach: a development-time SecurityManager that logs your applications' calls and builds a suitable policy file.
Source: O'Reilly

Obtain a Secure PDF from an FOP Processor   02 Jan 2007 22:41 GMT
This tip shows you how to obtain a secure PDF from an FOP processor.
Source: DevX