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Poll results: Readers rate <EM>JavaWorld</EM> content

Find out what improvements, additions our readers crave most

Poll results: Developers sound off on servlets

Find out why and how people are using servlets — 6+ key benefits (and a few concerns) detailed!

Introducing the new Servlet API 2.1

A complete description of what's changed since 2.0

Build servlet-based enterprise Web applications

Learn to build better, faster servlets with advanced servlet techniques

Sun’s one-Web vision

Practical, achievable, and rife with opportunity

Sun and AOL join forces on I-commerce for businesses

The big news is the ISP's purchase of Netscape — but how will this affect Java?

Programming Java threads in the real world, Part 4

Condition variables and counting semaphores — filling in a few chinks in Java's threading model

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Application servers: An introduction

Find out how this newly popular product category evolved

Enterprise technologies in the Java 2 platform

The power behind the portal

Java technologies prove crucial to Enterprise solutions

Jini technology, out of the box

The state of the Java virtual machine

Sun releases the new Java 2 platform in style

Jini technology: opportunity ’round the bend

Scott McNealy's keynote and demo

Application and enterprise security with the Java 2 platform

Sun outlines new licensing model for Java platform Standard Extensions

IBM: Java technology is mission critical

News and New Product Briefs (11/14/98)

News and New Product Briefs (11/2/98)

Speed up batch file processing using generic programming and core reflection

Don't let batch file processing slow you down — even if it is the computer that's doing all the repetitive monkey work

Useful gems from SIGS Conference for Java Development

Technical information and news for Java developers, direct from the speakers and attendees

Analyst: Sun scraps Java chip plans

MicroJava due for release soon, but with market cooling drastically, it may be Sun's last Java-based chip

IBM eyes Java marketplace with AS/400

Plan in the works for Java-based version of app server geared toward OEMs

Sun ports JDK 1.2 to Linux in push for ubiquitous Java

Company also lays out tools roadmap for an "enterprise portal platform" with Solaris 7, JDK 1.2, and servers

Server-side Java gains more momentum

Soon-to-come reference platforms for Enterprise JavaBeans and latest JDK are a good thing for Java

Vendors split ranks with Sun over standards process for embedded Java

How will non-licensees' contributions to the language affect write-once, run-anywhere portability?

Prepare yourself for what’s new and different in the forthcoming JDK 1.2 release

Core Java continues to grow and grow, but you'll be ready for the new release — with <em>JavaWorld</em>'s detailed analysis of all the additions

WebChart serves up Kaiser patients

Learn how a multitier Java solution moved a medical data emergency towards full remission

Poll Results: Developers explain timing of their transition to JDK 1.2

Answers reveal pros and cons of early — and delayed — adoption of Sun's new Java Development Kit

Programming Java threads in the real world, Part 3

Roll-your-own mutexes and centralized lock management

Fast, cheap and good — Java speeds TreeFrog’s development

Storage expert Spectra Logic pounces on an opportunity impossible without Java

Sun opens Jini spec for review

Sun decides to spread the word to spark innovation

News and New Product Briefs (10/15/98)

Sun’s Gosling testifies in Java case

Escape the sandbox: Access native methods from an applet

Find out how you can directly invoke the Win32 API — the IE-free way

Can Assure save Java from the perils of multithreading?

Not without your help, but it's a big step in a good direction

Java Software Division president feels heat from Microsoft lawyers in Java case

Cross-examination reveals contradictions and humor in Sun witnesses Baratz and Gosling

Sun, Microsoft fire closing volleys in Java hearing

Lawyers from both sides offer their positive perspectives on the hearing

Microsoft executive testifies in Sun’s Java lawsuit

Robert Muglia claims contract negotiations over Java licensing included flexibility in defining future Java products

Perspective: Sun and Microsoft duke it out in court

The battle for control of the Java language and its surrounding technology gets underway with a bang of the gavel

Will Jini grant Sun’s wish?

<em>InfoWorld</em>'s Test Center takes Jini apart at the seams

Princeton taps Java to extend its financial systems

Bypassing Y2K remediation and outsourcing, new system brings more flexibility and independence

Java’s creator discusses technology of Sun-Microsoft lawsuit

Gosling testifies on technical merits of Sun's claim

News and New Product Briefs (10/1/98)

Sun vs. Microsoft, Round 1

The battle for control of the Java language and its surrounding technology gets underway with a bang of the gavel

Friend or foe?

What does Intel really think about Java?

Internet World: Sun whips up Jini support

Demos with manufacturing partners on the way