Thomas E. Davis is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. He lives in sunny South Florida, but spends every waking second indoors in front of the computer. He has designed and built many large-scale multi-tier distributed applications in Java.
Avoid making typos while encapsulating arbitrary data in legacy systems
Find the middle ground between primitive arrays and vectors, and pickup a couple of new methods for manipulating strings
Use JNDIHashtable to share remote objects between different virtual machines --without the need for an object request broker
Explore the interaction of a timer thread and the wrapper class used for tracking the age of an object, then get started with a self-cleaning hashtable
Dynamic configuration lets you reconfigure your Java apps--while they're running
Go beyond increased app speed and reduced memory requirements: Optimize and stabilize your ObjectPool utility
Use object pooling to increase the speed and performance of Java applications