The Internet has evolved into an electronic marketplace, and businesses are increasingly realizing its benefits and those of associated technologies -- Web servers, browsers and Java. The next step is to leverage Web technologies so as to deliver mission-critical applications to employ...

After my family and I moved to Seattle, my friend Barry visited us with his wife, Mary, and their beautiful daughter, Julia. We hadn't visited Mt. Rainier so we thought it would be a good idea for all of us to drive there together. We weren't even half an hour into the trip when Julia ...

In some form or another it seems that this question is on the minds of every programmer, manager and CIO in the world. Each day another hundred monkeys introduce the new savior of the world, with the promise of previously unknown productivity and an end to all programming problems.

Information systems, meaning primarily software, are increasingly seen as a competitive weapon by which faster development and deployment equals a business advantage. This means more features on a shorter deadline. For developers this can be achieved by working harder or, perhaps the s...

It's a funny thing, public opinion and the media and how they determine the direction of so many things. Presidential elections, foreign policy, the stock market, and yes, even Java. Java has survived 1997, but its coat doesn't have the same shine and sheen that it enjoyed in 1995, whe...

In 1997 there was an explosion of third-party tools for Java. A variety of integrated development environments (IDEs), class libraries and visual components became available. Web sites that review and catalog Java tools like Gamelan (http://www.developer.com/directories/pages/dir.java....

As we approach a new century, the Web continues its phenomenal growth rate, appealing in so many ways to diverse groups of people. With the maturation of Java, the Web will evolve from stateless HTML pages or cobbled-together HTML/CGI script solutions to true interactivity and context ...

Application servers are not new. Many information systems, from mainframe transaction processing environments like CICS to the stored procedures of a DBMS, provide for the server-side execution of business processes. Running business logic on a server can improve security, managability...

I don't need a California court to tell me that Microsoft has breached their commitment to Java. Their attacks on Java portability, its very heart and soul, are blatant and painfully obvious. It's time to move on, and I think the solution to the Microsoft problem is simple.