Software development best practices and processes

The enterprise software development landscape has changed drastically with the rise of Kotlin, Clojure, Python and JavaScript. From a focus on functional programming to new takes on object-oriented analysis and design, Java programmers and JDK architects can learn from these languages' development processes and software engineering best practices.

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  • News 01 May 2004

    An Introduction to the Drools Project

    Part one of this article revisits an old concept and introduces a new technology for the Java Enterprise developer's utility belt. I'll discuss how Rules Engines can improve the agility of your business by helping you isolate the "logic of the bottom line" from the technical logic of your software applications. I'll introduce the JSR-94 Rules Engine API and an Open Source product called Drools, the forerunner implementation of this up-and-coming technology. Continue Reading

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    • N. Alex Rupp
  • News 01 Apr 2004

    Using Database MetaData methods appropriately

    Developing performance-oriented JDBC applications is not easy. JDBC drivers do not throw exceptions to tell you when your code is running too slow. Continue Reading

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    • John Goodson
  • News 01 Jan 2004

    Back End Code Generation Techniques For Java

    Code generation is nothing new, especially for Java programmers, but it is still confusing to most people because of the variety of code generation models and solutions. This article will help you cut through the fog by providing a summary of the popular models and solutions in the Java world today. Continue Reading

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    • Jack Herrington
  • News 01 Sep 2003

    SQLExecutor - A Simple, Open Source JDBC Framework

    Writing succinct and elegant JDBC code can be difficult. You have to create a few different objects and catch numerous checked exceptions, even if you can't reasonably recover from them. Continue Reading

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    • Jeff Smith
  • News 01 Aug 2003

    Using JAAS for Authorization & Authentication

    This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example application distributed with Struts, the lessons learned should be applicable to any MVC web framework. Continue Reading

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    • Dan Moore
  • News 01 Mar 2003

    Using JMX to Manage Web Applications

    The Java Management Extensions (JMX) standard is gaining adoption within the J2EE community for the management of applications, as well as application servers and other infrastructure software. JMX makes it possible to manage and monitor applications using a choice of management systems and consoles, including SNMP consoles. Continue Reading

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    • Tony G. Thomas
  • News 01 Feb 2003

    Simplifying Domain Model Persistence in a J2EE application by using JDO

    This article describes how using Java Data Objects (JDO) [JDO] can avoid these problems and accelerate development. Continue Reading

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    • Chris Richardson
  • News 01 Jan 2003

    Serve It Up with J2EE 1.4 - Use JCA 1.5 and EJB 2.1 to Extend your App Server

    J2EE application servers have become the standard for serving Web-based applications, and for good reason. Application servers provide a secure, reliable and manageable execution environment for Web applications using open, portable standards. Continue Reading

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    • Wade Poziombka
  • News 01 Jul 2002

    Intro to Java Message Service 1.1

    This article illustrates how to program using the new features of the Java Message Service (JMS) 1.1 API. The new features in JMS 1.1 are demonstrated through a sample application. Continue Reading

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    • Imtiyaz Haque
  • News 01 Jun 2002

    JAXP: Coding for Parser & Transformer Independence

    This introductory article will educate developers about the JAXP API, and provide them with a strong understanding of the pluggability layer that will allow their applications to switch between parsers at will. Continue Reading

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    • Henry Chen
  • News 01 Feb 2002

    Part 6 - Securing Web Services with Single Sign-On

    Web Services are arguably the most heterogenous distributed technology ever. A typical Web services setup will make use of many different technologies, object models and programming languages, which might include simple Perl scripts and standalone Web services implemented in C++ or Java, through to sophisticated applications build on top of J2EE application servers. Being able to interact across such diverse environments is one of the strengths of Web services, but it has a price: it becomes difficult to secure such systems. It is hard to find a common security standard for all involved technologies. Today we will talk about single sign-on, the security architecture that brings a flexible an interoperable way of securing heterogenous systems. Continue Reading

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    • Zdenek Svoboda
  • News 01 Jan 2000

    Implementing a Data Cache using Readers And Writers

    You may have come across a situation where you need to cache some data in your server. You then use this cache to service queries from incoming requests. You will also probably have a thread that listens for cache update events. This thread updates the cache in response to these events. Continue Reading

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    • Billy Newport
  • News 01 Jan 2000

    Nuts and Bolts of Transaction Processing

    This article walks the reader through the transaction processing and ACID. Continue Reading

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    • Dr. Subrahmanyam Allamaraju
  • News 01 Jan 2000

    Why Prepared Statements are important and how to use them "properly"

    Processing statements can be an expensive operation but databases are now written in such a way so that this overhead is minimized. However, these optimizations need assistance from the application developers if we are to capitalize on them. This article shows you how the correct use of Prepared Statements can significantly help a database perform these optimizations. Continue Reading

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