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Drool, Britannia? Is the UK Failing the Cloud?

By Roger Strukhoff

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.

Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST

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Progressing Toward the Federated, Automated and Client-Aware Cloud

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Performance of Java Compilers: An Empirical Study

By Babis Marmanis

How fast should our Java code be to be considered fast? After all, speed is a relative concept. I'll compare the results of CPU performance for the following JVMs: Sun's J2SE 1.4.1, 1.4.0, 1.3.1, and Jikes. These results can be used to make a number of educated decisions such as choosi...

Apr. 16, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 28,402 Replies: 5

Prentice Hall PTR Publishes New Edition of Bruce Eckel's 'Thinking in Java'

By Java News Desk

Prentice Hall PTR has announced the publication of leading Java expert Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java, Fourth Edition. This best-selling title has earned raves from programmers and students worldwide for its extraordinary clarity, careful organization, and small, direct programming exa...

Feb. 22, 2006 08:00 AM EST Reads: 14,769 Replies: 2

Sun Microsystems Introduces Beta Release of New Java Platform Standard Edition

By Java News Desk

Sun Microsystems has announced the Beta release for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). Code-named Project Mustang, this release is the culmination of an industry-wide design effort, open review and unprecedented collaboration between Sun engineers and hundreds of devel...

Feb. 16, 2006 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,754 Replies: 3

Performance in J2SE 5.0

By Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein

If you're a Java developer like me you ask two questions about every major J2SE release. What's new, and what's faster (or slower). Tiger includes a large number of well-publicized, high-profile features like generics, annotations, or the full new API for concurrent programming.

Apr. 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 31,833

Exploring Enums: The Wait Is Finally Over

By Ajith Kallambella

To enumerate means to itemize or to list. In the world of programming, enumerations, enums for short, are used to represent a finite set of values (constants) that a variable can attain. In other words, it defines the domain of a type. For instance, different states of a fan switch - o...

Nov. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 43,625 Replies: 5

Java 5.0 - The "Tiger" Is Out of Its Cage

By Java News Desk

These days Calvin Austin is one of the busiest people in the Java world: J2SE 5.0, that was also known as the 'Tiger' project, is being officially released today! JDJ's Yakov Fain was able to catch Austin, spec lead for Java 5.0, right before the plane from San Francisco to New York wh...

Sep. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,437

J2SE 1.5: Growing the Language - Finally

By Karl Avedal

A major event is about to happen - the final release of version 1.5 of the core Java platform. The changes in 1.5 are some of the most important to the Java language. This is a big step for Java and it's not an easy one. People with an existing investment in the platform tend to be ver...

Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 27,716 Replies: 5

Latest Beta of "Tiger" (J2SE 1.5) Released

By Java News Desk

Sun has announced the availability for download by developers of the latest beta of J2SE 1.5.

Jun. 1, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 25,110

J2SE 1.5

By Arulazi Dhesiaseelan

The beta release of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5, started gaining momentum in the developer community due to its potential improvements to the language and its convincing feature set. J2SE 1.5, code named 'Tiger,' is being developed under the Java Community Process ...

Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 27,147

A Christmas Wish List

By Jason Bell

I may not believe in the existence of someone who can span the globe in a number of hours, along with a collection of antler-based creatures (one with a red nose, the others not). However, it doesn't stop me from making a list of stuff that I want for Christmas. Apologies in advance if...

Dec. 4, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,856

PircBot 1.2.5 Java IRC API

By Paul Mutton

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a system that allows groups of people to collaborate and chat from anywhere in the world. Clearly defined by several RFC documents, it's arguably the most standard real-time chat system currently in use.

Dec. 4, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 29,496 Replies: 1

Lift Your Vision Higher!

By Jason Bell

Having ridden the storm of the dot-com decline, it's nice to see the worldwide press having a semi-upbeat tone about the tech economy. Java, as a language, rode the crest of the wave; it could do no wrong and Java developers were the geeks among geeks.

Nov. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,215 Replies: 2

Using Java Generics

By Steve Close

Have you heard? Generics will be in the next release of the Java SDK (code named Tiger, aka JDK 1.5). You might be wondering 'What is a generic?' or 'Why should I care?' or even 'Cool! How do I use them?'

Nov. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 42,604 Replies: 4

MIDI & Audio Sequencing with Java

By Mike Gorman

The Java Sound API, first introduced in J2SE 1.3, includes the package javax.sound.midi, which contains everything you need to be able to send and receive messages to and from any MIDI device visible to your operating system.

Nov. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 35,316 Replies: 2

Java Games Development - Part 3

By Jason R Briggs

Part 1 of this series appeared in the August issue of Java Developer's Journal (Vol. 8, issue 8), and Part 2 appeared in the September issue (Vol. 8, issue 9).

Oct. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 24,227

Java & Stream Ciphers

By Rich Helton

In the 1990s, I worked extensively with the Winsock 2 interface and encryption when it first came out from Microsoft in Beta form; it was exciting in those days of networking because it allowed you to easily encrypt data through the networks.

Oct. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 34,447

Customizing Ant

By Kirk Pepperdine

You have a task that your Ant build process needs to perform and none of the built-in or dozens of optional tasks fits the bill. If at this point you're thinking that Ant won't work for you, then the authors of Ant have some wonderful news. The framework they use to run built-in ta...

Sep. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 24,896 Replies: 2

Java Games Development - Part 1

By Jason R Briggs

I recently had a hankering to play an older (not ancient) PC game that I used to enjoy. Since I've moved my entire desktop over to Linux (for almost a year ago now) that meant stealing my wife's Windows laptop and trying to install the game on that.

Aug. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 23,642 Replies: 4

Hyper-Threading Java

By Paul Bemowski

In early 2002 Intel became the first chip manufacturer to release a processor incorporating a new technology known as Simultaneous Multithreading, or SMT. Intel's SMT implementation (dubbed Hyper-Threading or HT) has been available in their Xeon processor line for over a year, with lit...

Aug. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 35,728 Replies: 6

Trimming the Fat from Swing

By Marcus Zarra

I'm sure we've all heard it before: Java on the client is slow; Swing is slow. The reality is that Sun has made great progress in increasing the speed of Swing and Java on the client.

Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 27,109 Replies: 4

Avoid Bothersome Garbage Collection Pauses

By Lillian Andres

Many engineers complain that the non-deterministic behavior of the garbage collector prevents them from utilizing the Java environment for mission-critical applications, especially distributed message-driven displays (GUIs) where user responsiveness is critical.

Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 43,032 Replies: 5

SWT: A Native Widget Toolkit for Java - Part 2 of 2

By Joe Winchester; Steve Northover

The first part of this article (JDJ, Vol. 8, issue 4) introduced the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), and showed how graphical user interfaces can be created using some of the basic widgets found in SWT. In addition, layout classes were described that allow widgets to be arbitrarily posi...

May. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 88,217 Replies: 9

SWT - A Native Widget Toolkit for Java Part 1 of 2

By Joe Winchester; Steve Northover

The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a Java class library that allows you to create native user interfaces. It's designed to provide efficient, portable access to the underlying facilities of the operating system on which it's implemented. SWT uses native widgets wherever possible, giv...

Apr. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 99,365 Replies: 32

Rebel Without a Clause

By Craig Dewalt; Max Tardiveau

Do you consider yourself a Java expert? Think you know everything about exception handling? Can you quickly spot the six exception handling problems below? Every Java developer should be able to spot at least two. If you can't spot all six, read on.

Mar. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,683 Replies: 4

The Java Virtual Machine Profiling Interface

By J. Rhett Aultman

It's a situation nearly every Java developer faces - Murphy's Law strikes at the most inconvenient moment: a critical application upon which everything depends suffers from an elusive heap memory leak and begins throwing OutOfMemoryErrors.

Feb. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,913 Replies: 1

Java 3D

By Dan Pilone

Java 3D is not a newcomer to the Java API world; however, it has suffered from slow acceptance due to the general resistance to client-side Java. Now that machines are faster, hardware 3D accelerators are a dime a dozen, and newer JVMs rival native code, client-side Java and 3D graphic...

Feb. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 26,850

Packaging Java Applications for OS X

By Ian McFarland

Java on OS X is a first class citizen. You can integrate your app so well that users probably won't even know they're using a Java application. You can package your apps so they have one of those lovely 128x128 icons. You can package your apps so they have one of those lovely 1...

Jan. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 25,058

Java & Linux

By Calvin Austin

It's been over two years since I wrote my last article about using the Java runtime on Linux ('Java Technology on the Linux Platform' [JDJ, Vol. 5, issue 12]). The Java platform and Linux distributions have not stood still during that time, so I'm taking this opportunity to answer some...

Jan. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 35,365 Replies: 3

Plug in Your Command Processor Now

By Richard Ross

This article details the implementation of a tool called the Command Processor. This tool takes a Java object and creates a command-line interface to its public methods.

Dec. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 20,074 Replies: 2

SpringLayout: A Powerful & Extensible Layout Manager

By Joe Winchester

The task of a layout manager is to position and size each component based on the size of its container. Each component has a preferred size that can be used to determine the real estate it wishes to occupy, as well as a minimum and maximum size.

Dec. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 34,133 Replies: 4

Thread Pooling in Java Applications

By Vishal Goenka

There are several textbooks and Internet articles that dwell on the performance and scalability benefits of using a thread pool versus creating new threads in a multithreaded Java application.

Nov. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 38,459 Replies: 5

Managing Java Source Code Dependencies for SCM

By Tom Laramee

There are many facets to consider when implementing even the most basic software configuration management (SCM). For Java, with its import mechanism, these simple goals often become unmanageable when the source code tree grows beyond a certain point of complexity.

Nov. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,222 Replies: 6

Building Installers for OSX

By Ian McFarland

Java development on OS X is similar to Java development on any platform, particularly any Unix platform. The differences are in how your code integrates with the platform. Java lacks a cohesive platform integration strategy, so running a Java application usually doesn't have the same f...

Oct. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,023

Creating a Custom Launcher

By John Chamberlain

The most frustrating and error-prone aspect of Java for the average user is starting a Java program. The monumental confusion of batch files, scripts, and command-line cut-and-paste that's necessary to start a Java program using the default launcher is an ongoing problem area even for ...

Sep. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 28,458 Replies: 2

Hello World! in 70 Bytes

By Norman Richards

The Austin Java User Group recently sponsored a contest to create the smallest Java Hello World! program. The rules were simple: create the smallest Java class that when executed will display the text 'Hello World!' (and only that text) to the console.

Jul. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 23,731 Replies: 3

Java Design

By Mike Barlotta

Java classes should be designed to enhance their reusability and flexibility. Coding to an object type rather than an implementation by using interfaces or abstract classes can help us achieve both flexibility and reusability.

Jun. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,837 Replies: 2

Broken Windows in the Java World

By Joe (Leizhou) Xu

Not long ago I went with a couple of friends to a bar in lower Manhattan. While we were sipping Coronas, Jerry, our system architect friend, told us he had just inherited a high-profile J2EE system, along with one of the top Java teams in his company. 'Now we know who's buying the beer...

Jun. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,783 Replies: 2

Using the Java Native Interface Productively

By Andrew Chalk

Although we try to make our applications pure Java, outside forces sometimes make this impossible. We had such a case recently in our shop when we had to interface to an external device with an API that supported C language calls. This is a typical case for the Java Native Inte...

Jun. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,482 Replies: 1

Programming Neural Networks in Java

By Jeff Heaton

Computers can perform many operations a lot faster than humans. However, there are many tasks in which the computer falls considerably short. One such task is the interpretation of graphic information. A preschool child can easily tell the difference between a cat and a dog, but this s...

May. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 32,007 Replies: 3

Test First, Code Later

By Thomas Hammell

Testing is usually an afterthought in the development process. The developer's main focus is to design and write code. Of course, the developer runs the program many times during development to make sure the code runs and produces the expected results; however, this testing has no real...

Feb. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 24,065 Replies: 4