In this article Sameer Tyagi takes a look at the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), explaining how you can manipulate Java objects on an LDAP server. He'll show you examples that demonstrate how you can store objects, search for objects, see event handling in LDAP, and much more. More info

This month Samudra covers the ground work of defining Business Objects. We will compare EJB and POJO strategies for implementing Business Objects, work out the business logic implementation problems, provide guidelines for how to make Business Objects available to the client applications and more. More info

Larger applications frequently get loaded down with a heavy burden of unused library files. Learn to create a custom classloader that automatically builds a JAR file that contains only the classes you need. More info

It's official. Java has taken the top spot away from C++ to become the top language on SourceForge. Mats Henricson points out in his blog that as of yesterday, Java has 16738 projects on SourceForge, compared to the 16731 of C++. More info

An article/tutorial going throught the steps to design and build an on-line bank application using J2EE. More info

Join Kief Morris as he explains the ins and outs of writing Servlet Filters. More info

As a Java-programmer you'll probably find it easy to work with objects. To create an instance of a class one can simply use "new" and maybe a couple of setter-methods. To save your instances, so you can continue working with them tomorrow might be trickier. One solution would be to serialize your objects and store them in XML format in a flat file. If you've got many objects with complex relations then you'll soon find out that this is not the way to go. If you've got a database system and you know your SQL, then you have a solution that works. On the other hand: what if you could simply say "save my objects", and they'd be in your data base? That'd be nice, right? More info

Design patterns allow programmers to communicate effectively with each other, creating a common language for describing potentially complex subjects and reducing ambiguity. More info

Several solutions for organizing your HTML and JSP view components. This article covers seven available solutions and exposes you to the flexibility of the Tiles and Struts frameworks. More info

It's one thing to talk about the advantages of a service-oriented architecture, and another to drill down to a design that satisfies the needs of an SOA framework. In this article, Shyam Kumar Doddavula and Sandeep Karamongikar spell out just how such a framework can be put together. More info