Vol. 13 Iss: 2 Read Back Issues

JSR Watch: Java Mobile and Embedded Spotlight As I recently spoke at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference at Sun's Santa Clara campus, and the yearly Mobile World Congress conference was held in Barcelona in February, and the majority of the JSRs that have been active in the past few weeks are in the mobile space, ... Feb. 29, 2008  Reads: 6,690

Is It Time for a Hippocratic Oath for Programmers? Hippocrates, one of the founding fathers of modern medicine, realized that those who trained to become physicians were not only able to use their skills for good and for progress, but also might be inclined to misuse all they had learned. To protect against such abuses, new grads back ... Feb. 26, 2008  Reads: 13,339  Replies: 2

Bringing Real-Time AJAX Development to Java Developers Each day as an AJAX developer seems to bring another helpful revelation: a new tool, a new gadget, a new way to reinvent the browser. But even when I'm confronted with a breakthrough as big as Firebug - the brilliant debugging tool for Firefox - in the back of my mind I'm reminded that... Feb. 25, 2008  Reads: 8,821

Turbo-Charging Applications with Mid-Tier Distributed Caching Today's applications require faster and more frequent access to data at the mid-tier than ever before. This is due to a number of factors, including massive growth of data volumes and the extreme processing requirements that accompany such growth, the pressure from ever-changing busine... Feb. 21, 2008  Reads: 7,231

Building Security into Software with Security Policies & Static Analysis The common approach to securing applications is to try to identify and remove all of the application's security vulnerabilities at the end of the development process. However, this bug-finding approach is not only resource-intensive, it's largely ineffective. To have any chance of expo... Feb. 19, 2008  Reads: 7,007