Web Services provide functionality to the Internet, and are seen as the wave of the future. In this article, Martin Bond explains how to use Web Services protocols to join J2EE application components with any other software that supports those protocols. More info

Without a distributed services layer, management help from JMX may be limited More info

One important step in creating your own computer games is configuring your development environment. Keep reading to learn how. More info

Ever try to write a J2EE application accessing EJBs across a firewall? It can be messy, and developers often must resort to all kinds of workarounds, none of them particularly "neat." Developers often write a servlet to intercept HTTP requests and delegate them to EJBs, which is kind of a kludge. Another approach that uses tunneling technologies—such as RMI over HTTP—can entail a big performance hit. But there is a better way. You can solve this problem elegantly by using Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE). More info

Portal technology uses Web services to integrate disparate applications and systems, giving enterprises interoperability without reinventing the wheel More info

You my have noticed in last year or two there has been an increasing boom in technology in the area of mobile handsets and mobile software development. More info

Do you know, for sure, absolutely, that your automated test is testing what you think it's testing? Probably not, now that we've introduced some doubt. Mike Kelly explains how to get from "I think it's working" to "Yes, it's working correctly." More info

N-tier distributed applications require new management approaches. The complexity of n-tier distributed applications complicates management. Fortunately, new classes of application management software will provide a means of managing these new applications in a top-down, holistic way. More info

Call .NET Web services from J2EE. As much as fanatics in one camp might want to pretend that the other camp does not exist or that the other camp is not relevant, the fact is both camps are equally prevalent today and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. Eventually all developers, regardless of camp affinity, are forced to face this reality and interoperate with the other camp. More info

The escalating use of APIs, platforms, and patterns is opening the developer's art to close inspection. More info