All White Papers

The JavaWorld White Paper Library features the latest white papers on emerging Java technologies and critical trends.

Title / Brief description Company
Agile Development: Five Steps to Continuous Integration
Agile development techniques hearken back to a time when most developers were able to work on small projects, in small teams, and integrate regularly with other developers to ensure continued progress. But for most teams, there's no longer such a thing as a small build on a single machine. In this whitepaper, John Graham-Cumming co-founder of Electric Cloud looks at the impact of agile development on traditional build techniques and describes the role of effective, automated software production systems as the "heartbeat" of the agile team.
Electric Cloud
SOA redefined: Simple. Open. Affordable.
Red Hat redefines 'Service-Oriented Architecture' (SOA) to be simple, open, and affordable. JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the platforms and frameworks to simplify the development and deployment of SOA and Web 2.0 applications. It delivers its value through open source products such as the Java EE and web services standards. Finally, JBoss subscriptions deliver a high value that is affordable.
Red Hat
The Four Requirements of Next Generation Web Performance Management
This white paper focuses on web application complexity and how they demand a new way of thinking to optimize their performance. Learn why legacy tools are not up to the challenge and what four essential requirements are a must have for an effective management solution.
Symphoniq
Automating Excel Reports: Five Approaches
Java developers are often asked to automate the generation and delivery of Excel files. Read this whitepaper to learn five approaches Java developers can use, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and where each can be best applied.
Actuate Corporation
Java: Four Server-based Approaches
Java applications often need to tap into the logic in a spreadsheet. Developers are challenged to do this in a way that fits into the Java architecture. Get this whitepaper to learn four approaches for automating Excel logic, along with advantages and disadvantages of each.
Actuate Corporation
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