Mustang: The fast track to Web services
The upcoming release of Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) version 6.0, also known as Mustang, makes development and consumption of Web services a breeze. It brings the power of metadata (just type @WebService and you are almost done) to simple Java classes, enabling them to be deployed as Web services. It also brings the Java API for XML Web Services to clients consuming those services. This article takes a hands-on approach to developing metadata-based Web services and thereafter consuming them using JAX-WS.
Gautam Shah, July 2006

Develop configurable software applications with ease
The Obix Framework is an XML and Java configuration framework that provides developers with the ability to easily and quickly develop configurable software applications. This tutorial is a quick and short introduction to the framework, which demonstrates how to develop configurable Java Platform, Standard Edition applications. It shows how to create basic XML configuration files and access their values using plain Java objects. It also illustrates how to create modular configuration sets, as well as how to import/include files into one another to create better delineated and reusable configuration data.
Obi Ezechukwu, June 2006

Speak your own programming language with Web scripting
In Char Wu's previous JavaWorld article, " Build Your Own Scripting Language for Java" (April 2006), he designed and implemented a simple Boolean language called BoolScript and used it to illustrate all the aspects of Java Specification Request 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, except for the JSR's Web scripting capability. This article will take that same language and equip it with that missing piece. The end result of these efforts is the ability to run BoolScript code in a servlet container.
Chaur Wu, May 2006

Design and performance improvements with JDBC 4.0
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 4.0 is ready for release by mid 2006 as a part of Java Standard Edition 6.0. How can you leverage the new specification to improve the design and performance of database access and interactions in Java applications? This article discusses the new features of JDBC 4.0, illustrates its solutions to some existing problems, and presents its improvements in design and performance through examples.
Shashank Tiwari, May 2006

Build your own scripting language for Java
The upcoming Java Standard Edition 6.0 release will include an implementation of Java Specification Request 223, Scripting for the Java Platform. This JSR is about programming languages and their integration with Java. This article demonstrates the power and potential of JSR 223 through the implementation of a simple Boolean language. Throughout the example, you will see how to program to the Scripting API (javax.script.*), how to package and deploy a language implementation in accordance with the script engine discovery mechanism, and how to make your script engine compilable as well as invocable the JSR 223 way.
Chaur Wu, April 2006

Manage your JMX-enabled applications with jManage 1.0
Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology enables management and monitoring of applications and services via MBeans (managed beans), allowing JMX clients to be developed independently using standard protocols. jManage is an open source, Web and command line-based JMX client, providing a centralized console for managing application clusters and distributed-application environments. jManage goes beyond an ordinary JMX client by providing features like alerts, graphs, security, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) support, and more. This article introduces you to jManage 1.0 features using J2SE 5.0 MBeans as examples and highlights the upcoming jManage 1.5 features.
Rakesh Kalra, January 2006

Start saddling up for Mustang
This article introduces you to Mustang, the newest version of the Java platform that will be officially released later this year. Jeff Friesen explores Mustang's console input/output and partition-space methods, and its APIs for working with splash screens and interacting with the system tray.
Jeff Friesen, January 2006

Design an MVC framework using annotations
Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a software architecture that separates an application's data model, user interface, and control logic into distinct components so that modifications to one of the components can be made with minimal impact to the others. In this article, you learn how to design a framework that extends MVC and uses annotations to achieve an (almost) complete decoupling between the model and view.
Riccardo Govoni, October 2005

Annotations to the rescue
Java annotations can be used for more than just marking deprecated code. In this article, they are used to hand over method-invocation control to a lightweight framework component that manages the sequence in which a set of methods is called. The responsibility and logic of correct initialization, setup, etc., can thereby be delegated away from the class to the client application for adjustable configuration and control.
Norbert Ehreke, August 2005

An annotation-based persistence framework
The getter/setter idiom has always been problematic; it allows too-broad access to the implementation of your classes, degrading maintainability as a consequence. The J2SE 5.0 annotation (or metadata) feature provides an alternative. Rather than using introspection to find get/set methods, you can "tag" an object with an annotation and then access that annotation at either compilation or at runtime. This article both describes the annotation mechanism and presents the output side of an XML-based persistence mechanism that uses annotations to tag persistent classes and fields.
Allen Holub, March 2005

Sun upgrades J2SE platform
October 4, 2004—Application developers are getting a raft of new options this week with Sun Microsystems updating J2SE, Borland Software upping its CORBA ante, and Compuware detailing products that will work with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 toolbox.
Paul Krill, October 2004

Enforce strict type safety with generics
Java generics are the exciting new feature of Java 5 (renamed from J2SE 1.5) due for release shortly. Much controversy surrounds generics. In fact, Sam Pullara suggests that generics are just a really complicated way of implementing autocasting. In this article, Conan Dalton attempts to present one of the bright sides of generics: the ability to enforce stricter type safety—in particular, a kind of type safety that can not be achieved with autocasting. Dalton uses a simple but reusable event-dispatching mechanism for an example and compares a generics-aware implementation with a non-generics-aware implementation. He explains some of the more obtuse elements of the new Java syntax and, in conclusion, suggests that generics may have a different impact depending on whether you are an API client or an API developer.
Conan Dalton, September 2004

Taming Tiger, Part 3
The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Version 5 (previously called J2SE 1.5; Sun has changed its version numbers) contains new and exciting features, many of which have been long awaited for by Java programmers. J2SE 5—code named "Tiger"—is the most significant revision to the Java language since its original inception. Tarak Modi's primary goal with his three-part series on Tiger is to familiarize readers with J2SE 5's most important additions and show how to capitalize on these additions in the real world. Part 3 focuses on annotations, Tiger's new metadata feature.
Tarak Modi, July 2004

Taming Tiger, Part 2
The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5 contains new and exciting features, many of which have been long awaited for by Java programmers. J2SE 1.5—code named "Tiger"—is the most significant revision to the Java language since its original inception. Tarak Modi's primary goal with his three-part series on Tiger is to familiarize readers with J2SE 1.5's most important additions and show how to capitalize on these additions in the real world. In Part 2, he introduces generics.
Tarak Modi, June 2004

Taming Tiger, Part 1
The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5 contains new and exciting features, many of which have been long awaited for by Java programmers. J2SE 1.5—code named "Tiger"—is the most significant revision to the Java language since its original inception. Tarak Modi's primary goal with his three-part series on Tiger is to familiarize readers with J2SE 1.5's most important additions and show how to capitalize on these additions in the real world.
Tarak Modi, April 2004

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