IN TODAY’S competitive marketplace, organizations are facing the difficult challenge of providing a broad range of electronic-business services while keeping costs down in the face of ever-compressed ...

The latest J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) specification, version 1.4, makes Web services a core part of the Java enterprise platform. A set of JSRs (Java Specification Requests) in the ...

The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as a religious war: On one side, you have the proponents of checked exceptions arguing ...

Custom applications once combined multiple data sources at the user’s desk, a model that proved untenable as data sets grew larger and more fragmented. Today, corporate developers connect users with ...