Despite its current shortcomings, gcc-java shows great promise as the foundation of a completely free Java stack, and it already can be used to build many real-world applications; see the on-line ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond ...

Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development.

A lot of Java applications today can be extended, viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. One such example of this is the NetBeans plug-in framework. We can ...

In today's 24-7 world, high-availability is an important requirement for any Web application. Specially designed infrastructures can help increase the availability of Web applications, but ...

Sellers says Java is better suited than other programming languages for developing and running traditional enterprise applications that require a high degree of parallelism.

Embedded Java and Networking Middleware Example As introduced in Chapter 2, a JVM can be implemented within a system's middleware and is made up of a class loader, execution engine, and Java API ...