Java Certification and I Is the Java certification
program offered by Sun
really the route to a
higher salary and better
quality of code for
businesses? William
Knight has his doubts. In
his fifth year of Java
programming, after being
involved in several
... Oct. 16, 2004 Reads: 38,759 Replies: 40 |
i-Technology Viewpoint:
Is Mergermania Back? Hurricanes Ivan, Charley,
and Frances
notwithstanding,
sometimes being in the
eye of the storm has its
advantages. At SYS-CON
Media, where we by
definition dwell at the
epicenter of what might
be called the
i-technology weather
... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 48,039 Replies: 1 |
Where's Java Going with
6.0? With the release of the
newly renamed Java 5.0
J2SE platform, it's time
to speculate on just what
might be coming in Java
6.0. Given the typical
18-24 month cycle for
major J2SE releases, you
need to think beyond the
norm and not ju... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 26,830 Replies: 12 |
Take Two Patterns and
Call Me in the Morning Life is not easy for
today's enterprise
application architects.
In today's IT world, the
architect not only has to
design solutions for a
plethora of
interdependent systems
(as is obvious from the
job description and
title), he or... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 19,163 |
An Introduction to
Service Data Objects Late last year, IBM
Corp., and BEA Systems,
Inc., introduced Service
Data Objects (SDO), a new
data programming
specification that
complements existing Java
2 Enterprise Edition
technologies and enables
service-oriented
architectu... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 40,804 Replies: 2 |
Best Practices for JDBC
Programming While many new database
persistence methods for
Java programmers have
been developed in recent
years (e.g., entity
beans, JDO, Hibernate,
and many others), most
database access code is
still native JDBC. This
statement doesn't expre... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 30,719 Replies: 1 |
Managing Objects Between
Java and C If you've ever used JNI,
you know how to manage
the primitive data types
between Java and the
native language. As you
delve into JNI,
particularly when
developing a Java API on
top of a native API, you
need to know how to
manage t... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 15,605 Replies: 2 |
Mastering Multithreading Some of you may remember
a time when the world of
multithreaded programming
was limited to a small
set of C or C++
applications. Often the
threads were used
sparingly and restricted
to a specific task or
computation or even
operating system. Oct. 26, 2004 Reads: 22,641 Replies: 1 |
Java Programming: The
Java Async IO Package The Async IO package is
designed to provide fast
and scalable input/output
(IO) for Java
applications using
sockets and files. It
provides an alternative
to the original
synchronous IO classes
available in the java.io
and java.net... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 30,344 Replies: 7 |
Java Certification Have you looked at the
certificate that your
neighbor has so proudly
displayed in his or her
office? Have you ever
wondered if getting
certified in Java is
worth the time and
effort? Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 26,473 Replies: 1 |
Java Object Serialization
for Performance Performance is a goal
that all Java developers
should put at the head of
their design list for any
project. To help you
achieve this goal, there
is a powerful mechanism
that's used in just about
every commercial Java
product that mo... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 20,568 Replies: 1 |
Private Conversations in
Public One of the principles of
any OO language such as
Java is an object's
ability to encapsulate
its data and provide
clients with a specific
and well-defined API.
This is done through the
visibility keywords
public, protected, and
private. Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 15,115 |
Cover Story: Java Gaming
- Understanding the Basic
Concepts At JavaOne 2004 we gave a
presentation on Java game
development that included
general framework
information and tips and
tricks on using the media
APIs effectively. We also
showed an application
named 'Ping' that
demonstrated some o... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 59,596 Replies: 1 |
From Within the Java
Community Process Program Welcome to the October
edition of the JCP
column! Each month you
can read about the Java
Community Process: newly
submitted JSRs, new draft
specs, Java APIs that
were finalized, and other
news from the JCP. This
month there are no l... Oct. 6, 2004 Reads: 18,887 |