In the perfect world, you can find local resources for your project. But in the USA selecting programming as a profession is not as appealing as it used to be 10 years ago, and you may have to hire an offshore team. This is a list of tips for a rookie development manager that has to wo...

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width' was the title of a British TV sitcom in the late 60's (yes, I really am that old), which has nothing to do with Java software development. Or does it? The more I talk to people about the issue of Java software quality, the more I am reminded of t...

The Java metropolis consists of three boroughs - the Server Side (sounds like an Upper East Side), Mobile, and UI. The first two areas seem to be fine. Working with Java Swing for desktop applications is not fun, but if you have enough time and money you can create solid enterprise app...

Apache James is a full-featured SMTP, POP3, and NNTP server built using 100% Java and more importantly it's been designed from the ground up to be a mail application platform

One of the 2006 Soccer World Cup highlights must surely be the Trinidad and Tobago versus Sweden game. The underdogs Trinidad and Tobago managed to push off the onslaught from the Swedish team. The game ended 0-0, which was for the people of Trinidad and Tobago a divine experience - th...

In a previous wave of this study conducted in April 2006 by independent research company NPD Group Research, Flash Player 8 was at 69% penetration six months after its release, a considerable jump in the numbers from Flash Player 5 and 6, which were at 53% penetration during the same p...

For the third week in a row, IBM has spent in the neighborhood of a billion dollars on software acquisitions. This time it's the upscale neighborhood of $1.3BN cash, which is what it intends to lay out for Internet Security Systems (ISS) in the name of IBM Global Services.

Today's topic is how to lead offshore programmers. To make this discussion a bit more interesting, let's go back in time into the first half of the 19th century.

In answer to the question 'Where are the high-level Open Source design tools for Java?' I believe that they're emerging from efforts at Eclipse.org. These efforts began with the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) in 2002, and have been building momentum ever since, with the addition of t...

You're six-feet, 190 pounds and can type System.out.println faster than most people can say AJAX. You're a person who dreams about the Milwaukee Brewers winning the World Series and the correct data structure to be used when talking about a baseball player. You've spent five years of y...

I bet you thought agile development was supposed to be easier than a traditional, prescriptive process! That I would wax evangelical that agile development is the answer to everything, and it simplifies your life. Yeah, just like UML and model-driven architecture and XML and SOA and We...

What comes after Google? Where will the Web, the Internet, the whole nexus of telecommunications, i-Technology, and the quest for a better world, take us?

'We're now making serious progress on open sourcing Java,' writes Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, 'while focusing the debate on what matters most: not access to lines of code (that's already widely available), but ensuring compatibility.' Schwartz was writing in his 'Jonathan's Blog' - whic...

Time is a brutal enemy of youth and exuberance. Time makes cynics of us all. Time is the universal truth serum that reveals all authenticity. Time will tell, but the announcement yesterday by Google may change the faces of AJAX development, strike that, Google's announcement may change...

At the annual JavaOne event that he calls the 'epicenter' of his mission to remake Sun's business by making the company deeply relevant to developers, CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday wooed attendees with a keynote designed to underline how much Sun views as a collective endeavor the bu...

We have measured performance information to distinguish the differences between the Windows and Linux platforms. Given comparable hardware we found the performance differences almost trivial. When the server was pressed to capacity, our Windows installation was forced to turn away some...

Some weeks in any industry seem longer than others; as far as i-Technology industry goes, the week just ended seemed to last about a month. How else is one to explain how there can possibly have been room for all that happened, from the return to center-stage of Larry Ellison on the on...

The marketplace tells you that 'middleware is everywhere' when all along it should wise up and recognize that 'middleware is dead.' Because that's the new reality of enterprise computing today, according to Sun's software czar Jonathan Schwartz.

'Because of its prominence,' writes Bryan Taylor, 'Java gets a lot of attention and with it much criticism, some of it valid.' What many may not realize, Taylor notes, is that some big breakthroughs have arrived and that the Java development landscape is solving important problems. In ...

The requirements for different user-facing applications frequently say something like: 'User has to see/read/be shown only funds/records/itineraries/policies he or she is entitled to.' Permissions in these cases usually depend on multiple factors related to the user profile (job role, ...

Annotation is a new Java language feature introduced in JDK 5.0. It has quickly become one of the most popular, and yet most controversial, language feature in core Java. New Java frameworks, such as EJB 3.0 and Hibernate 3.0, make extensive use of annotations to eliminate the excessiv...

'In a week 2005 will become history,' writes Yakov Fain, 'and I tried to visualize what will have changed in software development a year from now.'

Ever hear the phrase 'the interface IS the system?' It implies that what people perceive a software system to be is largely determined by how the system looks and how they rate their experiences interacting with it. Is the system aesthetically pleasing? Were simple operations simple an...

In this month's article I continue my discussion of a list-based UI framework that I started last month ('ArrayListModel,' [JDJ, Vol. 10, issue 10]). The primary concept behind this idea is a data model that contains elements that describe parts of an application's user interface. Thro...

The single thing that Adam Kolawa in 2004 (prophetically) said he'd like to change about Java's history is its separation from Microsoft. 'I think it is a shame that the technologies from both sides cannot be used together,' he says, in an exclusive interview with JDJ. 'Java seemed to ...

As per Wikipedia, 'an arranged marriage is a marriage in which the marital partners are chosen by others based on considerations other than the pre-existing mutual attraction of the partners.'

The most important impact Ruby/RoR will have on Java, according to JDJ editorial board member Michael Yuan, is to drive the innovation in Java EE. 'Much the same way C# drives the Java 1.5 innovation. We are already seeing this happening,' Yuan explains.

'Oracle's a great place, a great opportunity, but they have a fantastic CEO and they're likely to have that CEO for a long time. It was not only a case that he was not leaving, but I was not the obvious heir apparent,' said Greg Maffei yesterday as he became Oracle's second CFO in a ro...

According to Sun, its mergers and acquisitions – unlike Oracle's, Adobe's, and AT&T's – aren't quick fixes aimed at instantly growing its customer base. They're 'thoughtful, strategic acquisitions that complement and enhance our historic strengths.' Sun Microsystems, McNeal...

Many years ago I saved up for a 16K RAM pack for my tiny Sinclair ZX81 computer. I thought, rather naively, that this was going to be the answer to all my memory issues. I would be able to use increasingly complex programs, okay games, and I could program without the restriction of lit...

Groklaw's PJ says: 'Apparently Google isn't intimidated by Microsoft. That is news by any marker. And further, if we were worried that Sun was in Microsoft's pocket ... I think this is evidence to the contrary.' Read what's being said web-wide about the announcement this week of a stra...

If someone would ask me what's the coolest application I've seen in years, I'd say Google Earth. It's a desktop application and it's free and it's fat as in fat client. And even if some of their applications are thin, the AJAX technology make them look fat and rich. If you'll add the a...

Pooling is great - except it's not very tunable. It's hard to map end users back to connections in the pool, and if a connection ever becomes invalid inside the pool, expunging only that connection from the pool is nearly impossible; JDBC 4.0 addresses all these drawbacks.

Saying that its support of the open source scripting language PHP does not reflect any dissatisfaction with Java, IBM is partnering with Zend Technologies to create Zend Core, a bundling of IBM's Cloudscape database based on Apache Software Foundation Derby and Zend's open source PHP e...

Was Carly Fiorina fired today because she was a bad CEO or because she was a woman? Should HP have hired someone from the inside? How about that Compaq merger? Who should the new CEO be? Take the opportunity to participate in Roger Strukhoff's 'instant survey' that asks these questions...

I recently upgraded my home network to use 802.11g. The prices for routers and PC cards have fallen throughout the year, but unfortunately the support has only marginally improved in that time and, after many re-installs, my network wasn't working. I eventually had to resort to probing...

In an out-of-court settlement reached this morning, pending the signing of a final agreement, Sun has agreed to pay Kodak $92 million cash, bringing to an end the patent infringement proceedings instigated by Kodak last week, in which Java was declared by a federal jury to breach certa...

If Sun were ever acquired, what would become of Java? As the 16-month Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover saga comes to an apparent climax, and with the echoes of the Kodak vs Sun patent infringement decision still ringing in everyone's ears, that perennial vexed question has naturally bubbled ...

It remains to be seen whether or not Delaware Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine this week will side with Oracle and declare void PeopleSoft's poison-pill strategy designed to stave off the hostile takeover bid. Before then it may become moot; if Oracle ups its current $21 tender offer fo...

This article clearly explains the need for a service abstraction layer for building robust applications in an SOA-enabled environment. As Ted Farrell points out, SOA is a generic concept that goes well beyond Web services and extends to include EJBs, other XML-based communications, JMS...