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Sun appoints Sueltz president for software

Former IBM VP to take over Sun's Java, Jini groups

iPlanet Web server boosts Java performance

New server offers more speed, scalability

Scripting power saves the day for your Java apps

Improve your user's satisfaction with support for user-defined scripting in your Java applications

The need for speed, stability

Raw VM performance improves across the board in the latest VolanoMark 2.1.2 server-side benchmarks, but network scalability remains a thorny issue

Get a new coffee cup

How to change the steaming coffee cup icon

Hotkeys

Learn to set menu and button hotkeys in Java

Sun delivers Kestrel, the newest version of Java 2

Exclusive article details Java 2 SDK v1.3 beta's new features, bug fixes, and incompatibilities

Java dedicated servers may be next on AS/400 menu

IBM AS/400 creator Frank Soltis reveals upcoming dedicated server plans

Sun details ‘MAJC’ appliance chip

Sun Microsystems outlines technical details for its Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing chip design

Court annuls Sun’s Java injunction

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agrees with Microsoft on Java injunction but leans toward Sun on the case's merits

Adaptive Java applications — XML makes it possible

Create an adaptive, dynamic, and extensible messaging system using Java, XML, and the DOM

News and New Product Briefs (September 20, 1999)

Security bug hits Microsoft Java Virtual Machine

IE 4.0, 5.0 security flaw could give hackers complete control over users' machines

Sun offers up free StarOffice office apps suite

Competitor to Microsoft Office now available for free download; Sun to open source code

News and New Product Briefs (September 3, 1999)

Letters to the Editor (September 3, 1999)

Letters to the Editor (August 20, 1999)

Replace 1.1 event adapters to build better apps

Sophisticated event adapters can replace JDK 1.1's adapters, improving your applications

The K virtual machine and the Palm V, Part 1

Java has a reputation for being big — really big — especially in its memory consumption, but as the new KVM reminds us, it didn't start out that way

QuickTime for Java rates as news at Apple’s recent Macworld Expo

Although Apple has nothing official to say about the state of Java on the Mac, there's plenty of news to be read between the lines

Design Java servlets with the Delegation Event Model

Use the idea of Delegation Event Model to build robust and flexible servlet programs

Simple handling of network timeouts

Learn just how easy it is to prevent stalled clients and servers

Build user interfaces for object-oriented systems, Part 2: The visual-proxy architecture

A scalable architecture for building object-oriented user interfaces

Clearing resources

Alternatives to finalize() for clearing an object's memory resources?

Java memory management

Are memory leaks possible, preventable in Java?

Static class declarations

Can a class — inner or outer — be declared static?

Dynamic memory; classes Vector and StringBuffer

How to dynamically allocate memory, solve Vector memory errors, and add stings

How to drag and drop with Java 2, Part 2

Create a library of drag and drop-enabled Swing components

Sun radiant over Jini magic in mobile networks

Mobile-crazed Japan viewed as huge Jini market

What Sun won’t tell you about JavaOne

Rants, observations, and 10 ways to improve next year's JavaOne experience

JavaOne Conference Product News

The Palm V meets J2ME

JavaOne was a wild and crazy time yet again, but the wildest things may be yet to come — in the form of tiny Java-based devices

News and New Product Briefs (August 20, 1999)

Sun to take wraps off Java appliances chip

MAJC, Java-native chip architecture to speed performance

Java maven Baratz unexpectedly departs Sun

Who comes next for Sun Software Products and Platforms division?

iPlanet brand nudges out infamous Netscape moniker

Sun-Netscape Alliance drops Netscape name for iPlanet on most product lines

News and New Product Briefs (August 6, 1999)

Letters to the Editor (July 20, 1999)

Bill Day responds to a Jini request based on his Java Device Programming column; a reader takes issue with Geoff Friesen's 'The Win32-Java hybrid,'; Allen Holub's thought-provoking column, 'Building user interfaces for object

Smarter Java development

Use interfaces to effectively enforce development contracts while maintaining loose coupling of code

JavaOne’s Palm-sized winner

How 3Com stole the show, palms down

Problems with Swing’s new XMLOutputStream class

Find out what's wrong, from the perspective of object-oriented design, with the XMLOutputStream class that's part of the newest version of Swing

The Java Grande forum pushes Java toward new heights

Java for scientific applications and high-performance network computing systems

Read standard input one character at a time (June 28, 1999)

The JavaWorld experts answer your most pressing Java questions — every week

A look at the JVM and thread behavior (June 28, 1999)

The JavaWorld experts answer your most pressing Java questions — every week

The promise of the Java 2 Platform

Why developers and IT professionals should consider migrating existing systems to Java 2 next year

Convert a Java app into an applet (June 24, 1999)

The JavaWorld experts answer your most pressing Java questions — every week

Shell game: Read user input directly from the command line in Java (June 24, 1999)

The JavaWorld experts answer your most pressing Java questions — every week

SQL databases come to Java smart cards

Rival SQL-Java vendors Pervasive Software and Isol Corp. announce competing product specs, race to ship products by the third quarter of 1999

News and New Product Briefs (June 24, 1999)

Kane Scarlett delivers 25 informative company announcements and product briefs, including: Symantec builds separate Java tools division; Visualize sponsors app contest; and a Cloudscape embedded DB upgrade. And more!

What’s brewing in Java’s future?

Developers sound off on their anxieties, hopes, and fears about the future of Java on the Windows platform