Tim rants after reading an article on DeveloperWorks titled, "Pure servlets: Rethink the view" by Jason Van Cleve...

Guy Kawasaki (Garage.com) provides a cogent list of the tips to get the attention of a venture capitalist.

One might ask if the concept "Mobile Web 1.0" itself is still largely hype...

Gavin King, Hibernate creator and Seam project lead, has posted the first of a series of posts containing his wish-list of features for JEE 6.

Explore the results of Oracle's deep involvement in the EJB 3.0/JPA and JSF specifications and more than 100 other JSRs, as well as its key role in open-source communities such as Eclipse, Spring, Glassfish, and Apache. Plus, you'll get free stuff!

SlickEdit 2007 introduces new core editing features that allow power programmers to be more productive by reducing repetitive tasks.

In this latest InfoQ article, Costin Leau provides a nice introduction to JSR 170 (Java Content Repositories) and how to integrate it with Spring Modules' JCR module, whose main objective is to simplify development with the JSR-170 API in a similar manner to that of the ORM package from the main Spring distribution.

In the first installment of this two-part article, the authors examine the problems created by today's software development processes -- and why we need to change.

The Opera Developer Console is a web technology-based tool for inspecting and analyzing various aspects of a webpage during development or debugging. The Developer Console exposes various aspects of the DOM, the JavaScript enviroment and the CSS attached to the document.

This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web development. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further.

Enums are implemented as constant flyweights. You cannot construct them. You cannot clone them. You cannot make copies with serialization. But here is a way we can make new ones in Java 5.

The Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition (JSE) Development Kit (JDK) contains the essential compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs for developers writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in the Java programming language. The JSE Runtime Environment (JRE) contains the runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.

Using JMX to programatically to retrieve the information that JConsole displays is easy.

if you are running Ubuntu Linux for AMD64 Java Web Start won't work out of the box with the 64 bit JVM.

The Java patch for the daylight saving time schedule change has a bug. But most applications are probably unaffected.

Take ubiquitous connectivity, a common transport - HTTP, a data representation standard - XML and Java ME, roll it all together and we have Web Services. Always with us and always on. Read Eric Giguere's introduction, then stay-tuned for more in the SOA series.

Want to provide maps in your web application? The Google Maps API is straightforward to call from Java, and with an Ajax-ian approach, you can make it extra user-friendly. John Ferguson Smart shows you how to combine these approaches.

Python 2.4.4 is now available. This is a bugfix release of the older Python 2.4.

Nearly everything written about Java Native Interface (JNI) assumes that your native code will be written in C or an offshoot like C++ or Objective-C. But this isn't the only option. For high performance and close-to-the-metal coding, you can call assembly language from JNI. Biswajit Sarkar shows how to do it.

Helge Tesgaard has written a nice tutorial on How to Create an AJAX-based file upload progress bar with AppFuse 1.9.3. Check it out if you have a need for such a thing. I especially like Helge's comment on productivity towards the end.

Part two of this series on application quality from an architect's perspective focuses on the importance of following a well-defined, consistent process when developing a product. The article also covers other quality essentials, including requirements, communication and strategy.

Gradually and iteratively adopt the benefits of the newest EJB specification.

Version 1.1 of the Google Web Toolkit has just been released. New features include localization support, RPC optimizations, and JUnit enhancements. InfoQ sat down with GWT Tech Lead Bruce Johnson to discuss the new release.

If regulatory compliance is threatening to cloud your sunny development world, take heart! There are tools available to help you keep your apps in compliance and up to date with requirements—and keep the board of directors, your boss, and industry regulators off of your back.

Testing your Java applications against a database can be a pretty painless endeavor thanks to the Cloudscape database built in to IBM's Rational Application Developer. For those who have an interest in this platform, this article will show you the ropes of setting up a simple test bed for your JDBC code.