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JavaWorld
May 2001
John Zukowski |
Master Java with these introductory books This article reviews six new introductory Java books released within the last year. Should you stick with the old standbys like Java in a Nutshell, Core Java, and The Java Tutorial -- each in their third edition or higher? Or, is it time to move on and try something new?   |
JavaWorld
March 2001
John Zukowski |
Performance books put to the test Want to make your users very happy? Improve the performance of your Java programs. This article puts six Java performance books to the test. Help put Java's lack-of-performance myth to rest by using one or more of these books to optimize your programs... |
JavaWorld
February 2001
Erwin Vervaet |
Java: It's a good thing In response to Simson Garfinkel's article 'Java: Slow, Ugly, and Irrelevant', the author takes a more realistic look at Java's situation. Indeed, Java is far from perfect. But when you take the time to look beyond the flames and the hype, what is left is an exciting and competitive language... |
JavaWorld
May 2002
Jeff Friesen |
Achieve strong performance with threads, Part 1 Users expect programs to exhibit strong performance. To satisfy those expectations, your programs often use threads. This article begins a four-part series that examines threads. You receive an introduction to threads, explore the Thread class, and learn about runnables... |
Unix Insider
September 2000
Jim Mauro |
Scheduling in the user threads library User level threads in Solaris implement a priority scheme and queue-management system distinct from the kernel thread priorities and per-processor dispatch queues that exist in the kernel. This month, Jim Mauro lays the groundwork for discussion on the internals of the threads library, relative to scheduling and thread priorities. |
JavaWorld
February 2001
Brian Goetz |
Double-checked locking: Clever, but broken Many Java programmers are familiar with the double-checked locking idiom, which allows you to perform lazy initialization with reduced synchronization overhead. Though many Java books and articles recommend double-checked locking, unfortunately, it is not guaranteed to work... |
JavaWorld
June 2002 |
Letters to the Editor Shouldn't Microsoft get credit where credit is due? How do you program a Java class file into an iPAQ? JavaWorld authors answers those questions and more. |
Salon.com
January 8, 2001
Simson Garfinkel |
Java: Slow, ugly and irrelevant The programming language once hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough is no substitute for simply training good programmers... |
JavaWorld
July 2002
Jeff Friesen |
Achieve strong performance with threads, Part 3 How priority relates to thread scheduling, how to use the wait/notify mechanism to coordinate the activities of multiple threads, and how to use Java's thread interruption capability to terminate a running thread. |
Salon.com
January 21, 2003
Farhad Manjoo |
Is there hope for Java? A judge has ordered Microsoft to make it easy for Sun's popular programming language to work with Windows. But the remedy may be too little, too late. |
JavaWorld
July 2002
Michael Juntao Yuan |
Java books hit the wire The author reviews six books published in the first half of 2002. Depending on your skill level, these books can help you get started with J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition), polish your skills, or advance your understanding of the wireless Java big picture. |
JavaWorld
November 2001
Brian Goetz |
Can ThreadLocal solve the double-checked locking problem? ThreadLocal is indeed an underappreciated tool in the Java Class Library and does solve the thread-safety problems of DCL, but unfortunately it does not meet the performance objectives of DCL -- yet.... |
InternetNews
September 22, 2010 |
Oracle Looks Ahead to Future of Java At JavaOne event, Oracle executive details the company's plans to enhance graphics, performance and programming capabilities following the Sun acquisition. |
InternetNews
February 15, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Sun Takes 'Mustang' For Test Drive Sun Microsystems today took its next-generation Java platform for a spin, with the beta release of Java Platform, Standard Edition 6. |
JavaWorld
June 2002
Jeff Friesen |
Achieve strong performance with threads, Part 2 Developers sometimes create multithreaded programs that produce erroneous values or exhibit other strange behaviors. Odd behavior typically arises when a multithreaded program does not use synchronization to serialize thread access to critical code sections. What does it mean to serialize thread access to critical code sections? This article explains Java's synchronization mechanism, and two problems that arise when developers fail to use that mechanism correctly. |
Linux Journal
June 1, 2007
Nicholas Petreley |
/var/opinion - Is GPL Java too little, too late? Java is on its way to become mostly GPL but is it too late? |
JavaWorld
April 5, 2002 |
Java Product News New file format to decrease embedded Java development costs... O'Reilly publishes Web services guide... Precise updates performance solution... Day Software adds Oracle 9i support to Communique Unify... 4thpass extends support to wireless enterprise market... etc. |
InternetNews
June 16, 2004
Michael Singer |
Java Wakes Up Sleepycat Based on pure Java, the new version of its Berkeley DB platform features full source code. |
JavaWorld
July 4, 2003
Mark O. Pendergast |
Navigate through virtual worlds using Java 3D Java 3D is an extension to the Java 2 object library that enables a programmer to create 3D graphical representations of objects and virtual worlds. This article demonstrates three advanced Java 3D programming concepts. |
JavaWorld
June 2000
Carol Sliwa |
Sun opens up Java specification process -- somewhat Responding to concerns from key Java stakeholders, Sun Microsystems is moving to revise its so-called community process for developing new Java technology... |
InternetNews
December 30, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Sun's Mustang Rides Into The New Year Sun Microsystems will release its next edition of Java in early 2006. |
Unix Insider
November 2000
Jim Mauro |
The lightweight process pool A system must maintain enough LWPs available for runnable user threads while keeping the pool small enough so that it doesn't waste kernel resources. How can this be done? Jim Mauro examines the mechanics of the LWP resource pool reserved for unbound user threads... |
JavaWorld
July 2000
Tarak Modi |
Lock on to an alternate synchronization mechanism How to create a reader/writer lock for multithreaded programming. That synchronization mechanism is useful if you don't want to prevent other threads from simultaneously reading a shared resource yet still want to allow only one thread to modify the resource... |
JavaWorld
November 2000
Mark Johnson |
C#: A language alternative or just J--?, Part 1 Early this summer, Microsoft caused a huge media splash by preannouncing .Net, a new distributed application framework. Integral to .Net is a new language called C#, which initially appears highly similar to Java. This article, the first in a two-part series, compares C# to Java -- describing language features and design trade-offs -- and places C# in the context of Microsoft's broader .Net strategy. |
InternetNews
May 23, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Java Turns 10 Ten years ago today, Sun Microsystems announced Java, which has become one of the most successful programming languages in history. |
JavaWorld
August 2000
Patrick Killelea |
Java threads may not use all your CPUs Tests to confirm symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scalability of processes and Java threads on Sun hardware have revealed a serious problem in Sun's JDK 1.1.7 that can dramatically reduce the performance of your server-side Java applications. |
JavaWorld
April 19, 2002 |
Java Product News PolarLake joins Forte for Java's vendor partner program... Speech recognition software vendors establish partnership... O'Reilly launches enterprise series... Dirig app managers support Sun ONE services... Faceless.org updates report generator... etc. |
InternetNews
June 24, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Sun Readies For 'The Power of Java' Expect a lot of hoopla, and news, out of JavaOne as the company celebrates the 10th anniversary of Java. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Sun's Java Gets Subscription Support Plan Java SE For Business adds the option to pay for increased support, with the promise of keeping the free edition current. |
InternetNews
March 29, 2011 |
Java EE 7 Moves Forward Executive Committee of the Java Community Process approves JSR 342 for Java 7. What's new and why is this Java built for the cloud? |
JavaWorld
April 12, 2002 |
Java Product News Manning teaches instant messaging protocol... Actional releases Web services gateway... Insignia introduces Java-based solution for devices... Excelsior updates JET... O'Reilly publishes Jython Essentials... JTransit deploys ColdFusion apps to J2EE... etc. |
JavaWorld
April 2002
Ramnivas Laddad |
I want my AOP!, Part 3 How to use AOP and AspectJ to solve real-world problems by modularizing crosscutting concerns... |
InternetNews
January 14, 2010 |
Java SE Fixes Bugs and Updates Performance More than 300 bugs got stomped in this 18th update to the standard Java release. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Adds Database, New Look to Java SE 6 Sun Microsystems is still adding features to Java Standard Edition 6, due this fall. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Anoints an Ajax Architect In the midst of cutbacks in other areas, Sun expands its AJAX commitment. |
JavaWorld
December 2001
Bill Pierce |
Diagnose common runtime problems with hprof Ever been a few days from releasing an application when testing reveals a memory leak or something causing the CPU to spin out of control? Few people realize that the Java 2 JDK provides a useful profiling tool called hprof, which you can use to diagnose these behaviors with minimal fuss... |
InternetNews
December 10, 2009 |
Sun Delivers Java EE 6 A week after the official vote, Java EE 6 is officially available and with it a new Glassfish Java EE 6-compliant server and NetBeans IDE release. |
JavaWorld
May 2001
Brian Goetz |
Can double-checked locking be fixed? This article looks at some of the commonly proposed fixes and shows how each of them fails to render the DCL idiom thread-safe under the Java Memory Model |
InternetNews
December 6, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Gosling: Java's All About The Community James Gosling, the father of the decade-old Java programming language is urging the developers who made Java what it is today to make sure they're building Java for tomorrow's tech needs. |
JavaWorld
March 25, 2002
James Niccolai & Matt Berger |
Sun exec sees focus shifting to clients Providing a consistent way to run Java programs on PCs, cell phones, and other client computers is the next hurdle in evolving Java, said the head of Sun Microsystems' Java and XML software group... |
InternetNews
July 23, 2004
Michael Singer |
Java 'Tiger' Divides the Enterprise The emergence of a new version of standard Java has opened a rift among application users who are reluctant to immediately upgrade for fear of incompatibility. |
JavaWorld
April 26, 2002 |
Java Product News IBM releases tools for the Eclipse platform... Sun enhances Java Card... Vulcan Machines launches Moon2... Ozibug exposes bugs... SOAPtest checks Web services... O'Reilly releases Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition... PointBase pinpoints mobile market... etc. |
JavaWorld
January 2, 2004
Humphrey Sheil |
In pursuit of perfection If we could just address Java's weak points, we might make Java that mythical beast -- the perfect technology platform. So then, what are those changes? Is there such a thing as the perfect technology platform, and does Java have the potential to become it? |
JavaWorld
September 2000
Tal Liron |
Launching into Java Here's the vision: Instead of clunky Web applications, service providers will design full-blown Java applications with multiple windows, drag and drop, printing and database-query capabilities, directory access, and message queuing, all in a package that runs from users' desktops... |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Sun Sips More Java Java has been a great success story for Sun. But to push things forward, the company has made it open-source. Is it enough to make a difference? Investors, take note. |
JavaWorld
December 2000
Todd Sundsted |
Secure thread collaboration across protection domains When threads collaborate across protection domains, they introduce interesting wrinkles into the science of building secure applications. This month, we present these scenarios and shows how to use the AccessControlContext and GuardedObject classes to build solid solutions... |
InternetNews
August 15, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Gives Multithreading an RDBMS Feel Transactional memory will better protect data integrity by locking memory or data so only one thread can access it. |
InternetNews
May 5, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Java EE 5 Gets Thumbs Up in Advance of JavaOne A new version of NetBeans will be available at the show that supports Java EE development. |
InternetNews
December 11, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Sun Unveils Java SE 6 Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6, the latest edition of the Java platform for desktop computers and servers, and the first to be developed in an open manner. |
JavaWorld
June 10, 2003
Krill & McMillan |
Sun pushes for Java ubiquity "Java everywhere" is the theme at this year's JavaOne |
