Extending Ant to support interactive builds Java / Miscellaneous
This tutorial will shows you how to extend Ant to produce builds that are interactive at run time; users can follow prompts to change parameters each time they conduct a build without having to deal with unfamiliar build files. You can incorporate this functionality into your builds to provide a smoother and more flexible experience for your end users.
Think small with J2ME Java / Miscellaneous
The Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) offers great tools for developers, porting the Java platform's network-centric and platform-agnostic worldview down to memory- and processor-limited devices. Soma Ghosh explains the basics of the J2ME world, showing you the building blocks of the platform and demonstrating a sample application.
JSci: An open-source alternative for Java 2D graphing Java / Miscellaneous
Java 2D may be the most obvious solution for programming 2D graphs in Java programs, but it's not the only one. This article proposes an elegant alternative in the form of Java Objects for Science (JSci), an open-source package that lets you create 2D bar graphs, pie charts, and line graphs in Swing.
Bridging the gap to COM Java / Miscellaneous
One of the strengths of the Java platform is its object-oriented nature; one of the benefits of object-oriented languages is that they aid code reuse. But what if you're a Java programmer and you want to reuse code that wasn't written in the Java language? With Bridge2Java, an IBM alphaWorks technology, Java developers can integrate COM objects into their applications.
The Jxta command shell Java / Miscellaneous
Project JXTA is a community-run attempt to build a utility application substrate for peer-to-peer applications. The initial reference implementation of JXTA includes a command-line shell that allows experimentation with the core JXTA platform without programming. In this second installment in a three-part series, Sing Li takes us through a hands-on tour of the JXTA shell. You'll explore its command set and extend its capability by writing your own custom commands using the Java programming language.
The Java 2 user interface Java / Miscellaneous
Graphical and user interface capabilities have progressed in leaps and bounds since the early days of the Java language. The Java 2 platform contains a sophisticated cross-platform user interface architecture that consists of numerous high-level components, an advanced feature-rich device-independent graphics system, and a host of multimedia extensions. In this article, we'll explore this progression, examine the capabilities of the current version 1.3 in detail, and finish by looking to the future to see what release 1.4 will offer.
Quick-and-dirty Java programming Java / Miscellaneous
The Java language is a great high-level programming language, allowing us to stay close to the problem we want to solve while effortlessly experimenting with different solutions.
Java Modeling: A UML workbook, Part 3 Java / Miscellaneous
you into the gray zone between modeling and method, with a look at requirements gathering via use case modeling. In particular, he focuses on the relationship between user interfaces, system interfaces, and use case descriptions. While tempting to do so, it is generally considered bad form to include user interface logic in a use case.
Introduction to WBEM and the CIM Java / Miscellaneous
This continues his three-part series on building resource management applications with a look at the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative. WBEM serves to standardize the description and use of managed resources in enterprise networks. This tutorial describes the components that comprise WBEM, and practice using the technology with a simple filesystem example.
Getting started with the FMA and Jiro Java / Miscellaneous
This article is the first in a three-part series that looks at how Sun Microsystems's Jiro technology and the Distributed Management Task Force's Web-Based Enterprise Management Initiative (WBEM) can simplify the creation of management applications for heterogeneous environments.
Faster apps on a better machine Java / Miscellaneous
If you want to build and run faster Java applications on the IBM Developer Kit for Linux, version 1.3, roll up your sleeves and prepare to get dirty. This article provides hands-on instruction for profiling, monitoring, and performance tuning not only your IBM Developer Kit, but your hardware capacity, the Linux 2.2.x kernel, and your Java applications.
Diagnosing Java Code: The Liar View bug pattern Java / Miscellaneous
GUIs are generally designed with a model-view-controller architecture in which the view is decoupled from the model. The separation presents a challenge to automated testing because it's difficult to verify that a state change in the model is reflected appropriately in the view -- it spawns the infamous "Liar View." This installment of Diagnosing Java Code examines the Liar View bug pattern.
Build your own Java-based supercomputer Java / Miscellaneous
If you've ever wanted to build your own supercomputer but have been held back by the demands of parallel programming in C, Pseudo Remote Threads is for you. This prize-winning Java programming model greatly simplifies parallel programming on clusters, bringing supercomputing out of the laboratory and into the hands of everyday Java programmers.