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This article is the first of a series of short articles that will introduce readers to the industry's various Web services standards. These articles will provide a quick introduction to a standard, its background, underlying architecture, benefits, status, and industry adoption. More info

Using an asynchronous process manager to contain your RMI server applications. More info

Have you ever had to work on a piece of code and found that it was hard to understand? Maybe the logic was convoluted, the identifiers meaningless, or worse, misleading. You say there was documentation? Was it readable? Did it make sense? Was it up to date with the code? Are you sure? How do you know? This chapter discusses programming by intention, a central idea in XP. It means making your intent clear when you write code. More info

Leverage "in-the-trench" J2EE best practices to improve the architecture and design of your existing and future J2EE applications. More info

This tutorial delves into the subject of RPC-style Web services and how to use them with the IBM WebSphere SDK for Web services V5.1 (WSDK). We show you how to write Web service implementations, and how to build and deploy them with the WSDK,... More info

How are vendors' tools strategies changing with new J2EE market challenges? More info

Leverage the wealth of information and experience documented in the J2EE Enterprise BluePrints. More info

Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 ("Tiger") is the next major revision to the Java platform and language; it is currently slated to contain 15 component JSRs with nearly 100 other significant updates developed through the Java Community Process (JCP).

With so many exciting changes in this release, you may be wondering where you should start. As in previous releases, the comprehensive list of all changes is available in the Release notes guide. This article, from the J2SE team, will take you through the major changes so that you have a grasp of what J2SE 5.0 has to offer, before diving into the API docs. More info

As I've found with a number of design patterns, the lines get kind of blurry here: we are creating function objects which perform adaptation and they are being passed into methods to be used as strategies. More info