Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
We at JDJ really appreciate all the article submissions we've received lately. Topics we'd ideally still like to see covered moving forward include:
JMX! Instrumenting for JMX is easy - and we've forthcoming articles on it. I'd like to see more in-depth treatment, though, as it's a core component of the new J2EE specification, and many application servers already use it - but I want to see how it can be made available, as well as case studies of how people have used it in the "real world" outside of the rarified atmosphere of specific applications. It's an enterprise tool, and much underused, in my opinion.
J2EE solutions would be cool as well. One person suggested an article on "top ten urban legends about J2EE," which sounds like a chance to dispel the myths that have grown up it. Any others?
Articles on profiling effectively, as well as writing clear code that performs well, would be excellent reads.
JNDI is another technology that's vastly misunderstood and misunderused by the "rank and file." Anyone want to write up a useful primer on it?
I'd love to see tips and tricks for Swing and Java2D, with performance and clarity in mind.
An article on using some of the many scripting languages now floating about might be useful to our readers as well, such as how they're usable for real-world projects and products.
EDI is underaddressed. (Really! Everything I've read addresses how the technologies work, and not why you should use them.)
Are there interesting tools and libraries for Java? Of course there are. Components, too. If you'd like to take a swing at explaining or exposing one of them, feel free!
These are just a few ideas you might be interested in. If you have others, please don't let this list stop you!
It's a lot of fun to watch things come through, and if we've been less responsive than you'd like, we apologize! I've been on vacation lately, as well as having a lot of high-priority items in my day job, so I've simply had less working time to dedicate to you. As things slow down, we'll be able to pick up the slack again.
That said, keep them coming!
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siva prasad n commented on 29 Apr 2004
Though there were a lot of interesting articles profiling J2EE vs .Net , I could never come to a real conclusion as to whether .Net is really as capable as J2EE or not. And I think more than technical white papers which talk both ways skewing our view , the real test would be to know what real big commercial sites use like Amazon, ebuy, and banking sites etc. Or if there is a profiler on what platforms these sites are using , their hits/transactions/other key performance issues etc, we can come to a better conclusion.
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Chris Duesing commented on 20 Apr 2004
Well I never heard anything official, but to quote from the Magicosm (3D Java MMORPG) site:
"Java3D is not dead. We consider it "in stasis" at Sun. No new development is being done at the moment but we have not killed the product (what we call EOL in Sun terminology-- End Of Life.)
In point of fact, its still in heavy use at Universities and in the Visualization/Simulation area, and Apple has just posted their port to OSX on their developer download page.
Having said that, the move to Xith is a perfectly reasonable choice by the Magicosm guys and puts them on top of JOGL, which is our current focus in the game group."
I am not sure what the real identity of the poster is, he goes by the handle "Cyberqat".
siva prasad n wrote: Though there were a lot of interesting articles profiling J2EE vs .Net , I could never come to a real conclusion as to whether .Net is really as capable as J2EE or not. And I think more than technical white papers which talk both ways skewing our view , the real test would be to know what real big commercial sites use like Amazon, ebuy, and banking sites etc. Or if there is a profiler on what platforms these sites are using , their hits/transactions/other key performance issues etc, we can come to a better conclusion.
Chris Duesing wrote: Well I never heard anything official, but to quote from the Magicosm (3D Java MMORPG) site:
"Java3D is not dead. We consider it "in stasis" at Sun. No new development is being done at the moment but we have not killed the product (what we call EOL in Sun terminology-- End Of Life.)
In point of fact, its still in heavy use at Universities and in the Visualization/Simulation area, and Apple has just posted their port to OSX on their developer download page.
Having said that, the move to Xith is a perfectly reasonable choice by the Magicosm guys and puts them on top of JOGL, which is our current focus in the game group."
I am not sure what the real identity of the poster is, he goes by the handle "Cyberqat".
The post on the forum can be found at:
http://www.sword-and-sorcery.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000012.html
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We at JDJ really appreciate all the article submissions we've received lately. Topics we'd ideally still like to see covered moving forward include:
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