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  • Giving open-source Java a jolt

    COMMENTARY--The open source and free software communities have embraced Java, and the fruits of that relationship are starting to show. On the server, projects like Jigsaw, JBoss, Enhydra and...

    News items | July 31, 2001 12:00am PDT

  • Microsoft: The Tonya Harding of technology

    COMMENTARY--What do you do if you can't win a fair competition? Club your opponent in the knees. That seems to be Microsoft's tactic against Java, a programming standard Microsoft doesn't control....

    News items | July 19, 2001 12:00am PDT

  • It's the VM, stupid!

    This year's JavaOne conference, which took place earlier this month in San Francisco, had two primary thrusts: Web services and Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). Web services allow XML-based Remote...

    News items | June 19, 2001 12:00am PDT

  • Do Java programmers really need SOAP?

    SOAP, or the Simple Object Access Protocol, defines XML syntax used to standardize a language-neutral remote method invocation, its input parameters, and return value. A good portion of the SOAP...

    News items | April 12, 2001 12:00am PDT

  • Exception handling: The good, the bad, and the ugly

    Even though exception handling is common and every introductory Java course covers it, I still don't think we really know how to do it well. It is almost as if the general concept is still...

    News items | February 16, 2001 12:00am PST

  • Libraries are dead--long live meta-libraries!

    For more than two decades, Microsoft wielded its DOS, Windows, and Win32 APIs as weapons to foster the Windows/Office duopoly. Industry reaction to this extremism was to fight fire with fire....

    News items | January 17, 2001 12:00am PST

  • Sun's JCP: Enough rope to hang itself?

    Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) is designed to promote the evolution of the Java platform, which Sun owns. The official reason Sun adopted a private "community" process over an international...

    News items | December 19, 2000 12:00am PST

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