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JavaWorld August 2001 Brian Goetz |
Exceptional practices, Part 1 Exceptions provide a powerful mechanism for handling error conditions in Java programs. However, many developers don't spend enough time thinking about exceptions during the design process; instead, they let the development process drive the program's use of exceptions... |
JavaWorld September 2001 Brian Goetz |
Exceptional practices, Part 2 A specific technique -- exception chaining -- that you can use to preserve important debugging information. Exception chaining is so useful and widely applicable that it has been added to the Throwable class in JDK 1.4 (Merlin)... |
JavaWorld March 2002 Jeff Friesen |
Exceptions to the programming rules, Part 1 Learn about exceptions and how to handle them in C, C++, and Java. Learning how to handle exceptions in various languages gives you an appreciation for why exception handling works the way it does in Java... |
JavaWorld April 2002 Jeff Friesen |
Exceptions to the programming rules, Part 2 Learn about Java's exceptions class hierarchy, how to extend those classes, how to throw objects created from exception classes, how to catch thrown objects and handle the exceptions they represent, and how to clean your code... |
JavaWorld May 30, 2003 David Geary |
Facade clears complexity The Facade design pattern simplifies complex APIs by providing a simplified interface to a complex subsystem. This article explores a built-in Swing facade for creating dialog boxes and a custom facade for getting a Swing application off the ground. |
JavaWorld April 2001 Piet Jonas |
Secure type-safe collections A framework that overcomes the standard Java Collections Framework's main problem: its containers lack the ability to restrict themselves to storing objects of a specific type. The solution uses reflection, wrapper classes, and a collection of static factory methods... |
JavaWorld August 2001 Jeff Friesen |
Object-oriented language basics, Part 5 Every Java class has a superclass. In the absence of an extends keyword, Object is that superclass. Object takes center stage as this article presents its 11 methods... |
JavaWorld July 18, 2003 James Carman |
Get down to business In this article, you will learn how to structure your applications such that modifications to the business object implementation do not require changes to the user interface using a simple framework for accessing your business objects. |
JavaWorld October 2001 Jeff Friesen |
Object-oriented language basics, Part 7 This final installment of Java 101's object-oriented programming series explores Java's support for polymorphism and investigates how abstract classes accommodate generalities in class hierarchies. |
JavaWorld August 2000 Gaurav Pal & Sonal Bansal |
Exceptions in Java: Nothing exceptional about them The judicious and proper use of the Java exception-handling mechanism can pay rich dividends by delivering quality code that works. In order to use the powerful error-handling features of Java, users must understand key issues that impact its design and implementation. |
JavaWorld December 2000 Robert Nielsen |
Calculating Java dates Whether you are dealing with financial transactions or planning future activities, you need to know how to create, use, and display dates in a Java program. That requires more than simply looking up the appropriate class in the API reference: just one date can easily involve creating objects in three date-related classes. This tutorial shows what you need to know. |
JavaWorld November 2001 Michael C. Daconta |
Practice makes perfect One pitfall stumbled on while porting an Extensible User Interface Language (XUL) game to Java and two pitfalls sent in by readers... |
JavaWorld December 2000 Brett McLaughlin |
Validation with Java and XML schema, Part 4 Taking validation beyond simple if-then-else structures, XML schemas can provide a better way to validate data in Java applications. You'll parse the XML schema, build up Java representations of the schema's constraints, and learn how to apply those constraints to data in an application... |
JavaWorld April 2002 |
Letters to the Editor How does PreparedStatement perform? How do you compile Java code dynamically? Does ChainedException preserve the original exception? How do you combine a sorting Decorator with a filtering Decorator? JavaWorld authors answer these questions and more... |
JavaWorld December 2000 Michael C. Daconta |
When Runtime.exec() won't This installment of Java Traps discusses one new pitfall and revisits another from the previous column. Originating in the java.lang package, the pitfall specifically involves problems with the Runtime.exec() method. |
JavaWorld October 2001 Tony Loton |
JavaMail quick start This article shows the first steps on the road to building Java-based email applications. If you fancy building your own email client to replace Microsoft Outlook, or a Web-based email system to rival Hotmail, this is the place to start... |
JavaWorld September 2001 Sunil Kumar & Nitin Nanda |
Log it or lose it How to enable a Java application to log messages to the NT Event Log... |
JavaWorld May 2001 Jeff Friesen |
Object-oriented language basics, Part 2 In this article, you'll gain an understanding about fields, parameters, and local variables and learn to declare and access fields and methods... |
JavaWorld March 2001 Michael C. Daconta |
Dodge the traps hiding in the URLConnection class This article focuses on problems with posting to an HTTP URL and the bane of new Java programmers, the NoClassDefFoundError... |
JavaWorld August 2001 Bill W. Davis |
Dynamically extend Java applications Do you want to write programs that can be extended without source code changes? The techniques described in this article show you how to use interfaces and dynamic class loading to create highly extensible systems... |
JavaWorld February 2002 Jeff Friesen |
Classes within classes As with fields and methods, Java allows classes to be members of other classes. This article explores Java's support for class nesting... |
JavaWorld September 26, 2003 Sam Mefford |
Overcome Java 1.3-1.4 incompatibilities API version incompatibilities that force you to maintain separate codebases for newer versions can exponentially increase your frustration level. This article demonstrates techniques for overcoming interface version incompatibilities, charting a course for a single codebase. |
JavaWorld November 2000 Geoff Friesen |
Applications, applets, and hybrids This article establishes our bearings and sets sail to the land of applications, applets, and hybrids (an unusual category of Java programs)... |
JavaWorld March 2003 |
Letters to the Editor How do you handle failover in a Java Message Service (JMS) system? When is it safe not to declare a static field volatile in a threaded application? Is there synchronization hidden inside Struts? JavaWorld authors answer these questions and more in this month's Letters. |
JavaWorld July 2000 Jacob Weintraub |
Learn how to store data in objects In this second installment of Java 101, Jacob Weintraub delves into storing data in Java and the various ways you can use that data. Specifically, he examines how objects store data and how you can pass data to objects in method calls... |
JavaWorld January 2001 Brian Goetz |
Design for performance, Part 1: Interfaces matter Many common Java performance problems stem from class-design decisions made early in the design process, long before most developers even start thinking about performance... |
JavaWorld June 2001 Jeff Friesen |
Object-oriented language basics, Part 3 The author explores composition and demonstrates its value in object-oriented programming. Composition and inheritance are design consepts related in a manner similar to both sides of the same coin... |
JavaWorld February 2003 Laurence Vanhelsuwe |
Unwrap the package statement's potential The package statement is a very powerful Java language feature. Yet most Java programmers, even experienced ones, fail to correctly exploit this power. Intrigued? Read on and see how a simple language feature can have massive repercussions downstream. |
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 Helen Bradley |
Declaring Variables in Excel All variables in Visual Basic must be set with a DIM statement or you will get an error. To make the example work, you need to add the following statements. |
JavaWorld October 2002 Jeff Friesen |
Java's character and assorted string classes support text-processing Text-processing is one of the more frequent activities in which computer programs engage. Java supports that activity via the Character, String, StringBuffer, and StringTokenizer classes. This article explores each class and introduces you to an assortment of those classes' methods. |
JavaWorld December 2000 Geoff Friesen |
Non-object-oriented language basics, Part 1 This column separates Java's language features into two categories: non-object-oriented programming and object-oriented programming. This article explores comments, identifiers, data types, literals, and variables... |
JavaWorld February 2001 Robert Nielsen |
Learn Java from Ben Franklin While Benjamin Franklin never wrote a line of Java code, his techniques for better writing can be applied to writing Java. Anyone with at least a basic grasp of Java can use Franklin's learning methods... |
JavaWorld October 2000 Bruce Eckel |
Everything is an object, Part 2 Eckel takes you through name visibility and using components from other libraries; the static keyword; and comments and embedded documentation. By the end, you should be able to build your first Java program... |
JavaWorld April 2001 Geoff Friesen |
Object-oriented language basics, Part 1 An introduction to object-oriented programming and how to declare classes and create objects from those classes... |
JavaWorld September 2000 Michael C. Daconta |
Steer clear of Java pitfalls Avoiding Java programming problems can save you considerable time and frustration when developing programs. This month, Michael Daconta presents two API pitfalls and a long-standing bug. |
PC Magazine February 3, 2004 Sheryl Canter |
Windows XP Error Reports Should you send those crash reports to Microsoft? |
PC Magazine October 10, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking |
Turn Off USB 2.0 Warning Turning off all USB-related error messages. |
JavaWorld September 2000 Bruce Eckel |
Everything is an object, Part 1 This two-part article, excerpted from Chapter 2 in Thinking in Java 2nd. ed., moves you to the point where you can write your first Java program. Bruce Eckel gives an overview of the essentials... |
PC World March 2003 Scott Dunn |
Window Tips: XP Error Messages--You Decide What to Report Customize outbound Windows XP error messages; add sounds and visual effects to your PC's error messages; diagnose memory errors; a better way to tweak Windows. |
PC Magazine August 30, 2006 |
Batch File Redirection Oddity Redirecting the output of a batch file in Windows XP |
Macworld December 2004 Joe Kissell |
MailSteward 2.2 Mail-archiving program improves searching but needs work |