Java Web Development

Java Web Development

Speed, usefulness are key to successful Web apps
To be successful, a Web application must be fast, instantly useful, playful and search-engine friendly with a clean user interface, according to venture capitalist Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures.
Juan Carlos Perez, February 2010

Real-world advice for Web app developers
Hopeful entrepreneurs and developers attending the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami Beach received a heavy dose of real-world advice from successful peers, including some tips that at first pass seem counterintuitive.
Juan Carlos Perez, February 2010

Proactive performance monitoring for Web apps
Gaining deep insight into Web application performance is essential to maintaining the quality of service users expect in the Web 2.0 era. But more often than not, that is easier said than done -- especially when your Web app is operating under heavy load.
Martin Heller, February 2010

Rails 3 beta eyed for late January release
Ruby on Rails 3, an upgrade to the popular Web development framework that merges Rails with the alternative Merb framework, is due to be offered as a beta release by the end of this month, the founder of Rails said on Monday afternoon.
Paul Krill, January 2010

Eich: JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash
JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld. "The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of it, so JavaScript's gotten very, very fast, and this is helping developers use it more," Eich said when asked what he sees in the future for JavaScript. "It's being used for 3D graphics programming now."
Paul Krill, November 2009

Now open source: Several of Google's JavaScript tools
Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications.
Juan Carlos Perez, November 2009

JetBrains readies open source version of its Java IDE
JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview of a free, open source version of the IDE.
Paul Krill, October 2009

IBM developerWorks celebrates 10 years
IBM last week marked the 10th anniversary of its IBM developerWorks Web site, which features resources for software developers and IT professionals.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld, October 2009

IBM tool eases JavaScript development
Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use of a modeling language, according to IBM sources.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Close the Java security hole in many browsers
As we noted earlier, there's a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the way Java applets work, you can be attacked by simply visiting (not even clicking a link on, or downloading a file from) a Web site containing a malicious Java applet.
Rob Griffiths, May 2009

Ajax: Tools of the trade
Ajax has effectively launched a new era in JavaScript development, bringing with it a plethora of robust tools for the JavaScript programmer. Take a quick tour of the tools you could be using for JS development, debugging, testing, and more. You'll never code JavaScript in just a text editor again.
Nathaniel T. Schutta, May 2009

Domain-driven design with Java EE 6
When a Java EE application needs to implement type-specific behavior for domain objects, a procedural, service-oriented approach leads to unnecessary code and hard-to-maintain logic. Learn about Java EE's architectural flip-side: domain-driven design that lets you make the most of Java's object-oriented roots.
Adam Bien, May 2009

Clojure: Challenge your Java assumptions
Clojure's immutable datatypes, lockless concurrency, and simple abstractions make parallel programming for multicore hardware simpler and more robust than in Java. Joshua Fox takes you on a tour of this exciting new language for the JVM, which was just recently released in v1.0.
Joshua Fox, May 2009

Know your Oracle application server
René van Wijk offers tips for troubleshooting incompatibilities between Oracle Web application servers and Java EE application components such as TopLink Essentials, Apache MyFaces Trinidad, Hibernate, and EJBs.
René van Wijk, May 2009

SpringSource deal unites open source technology builders
SpringSource has acquired Hyperic in a deal that will enable SpringSource to provide a product set for powering the entire Java application lifecycle, say company executives. Paul Krill reports.
Paul Krill, May 2009

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