Build an object database, Part 2: Object storage backend
In the second of this two-article series, we implement relational
database storage for the object-storing framework we developed last
time. We then specialize it to support the open source MySQL
database. Next, we plug the MySQL...
04/07/2000
Build an object database
In this first of two articles, we look at implementing an object
database frontend -- that is to say, a database frontend that can
automatically map between Java objects and records within a
relational database. Using this frontend...
01/21/2000
Multicast the chatwaves
In this article, Merlin takes you through the process of
implementing a simple, multicast-based, peer-to-peer chat system.
To make things more interesting, he'll show you how to implement
two custom stream classes that simplify the...
10/20/1999
Java 2 introduces print capability to the Swing Forum
This installment of Java Step By Step focuses on
adding print functionality to a Swing application. Michael begins
by covering the fundamentals of the new Java 2 printing system and
its mechanisms. He then steps through the addition...
06/09/1999
Reading textual data: Fun with streams
JDK 1.1 introduced character streams to Java quite a while ago,
nicely addressing the basic need for Java to be able to properly
read and write character-based data and to properly decode a wide
variety of byte encodings of a large...
04/01/1999
Making the Forum Swing, Part 2
This second article in a two-part series demonstrates how to add
event handling and networking to the newly resurfaced Swing Forum
client. Michael begins by examining the JTree
component, which facilitates user interaction in the...
11/01/1998
Making the Forum Swing, Part 1
JDK 1.2 is already in its fourth beta release, gathering steam for
its full release sometime this fall. One of its key features is the
now fully integrated JFC, which, with its Swing GUI library, will
revolutionize Java GUI design and...
09/01/1998
3D Graphic Java: Render fractal landscapes
In this second look at 3D graphics programming in Java, Merlin
takes you through rendering 3D terrains. He'll step through the
problem from the ground up, working through lots of fun mathematics
and algorithms along the way. You may...
08/01/1998
Write a session EJB
Enterprise JavaBeans gives us the perfect excuse to revisit our
Forum application. EJB's ability to handle messy infrastructure
issues will help us quickly replace the current RMI backend with a
session bean that provides the same...
07/01/1998
Draw textured spheres
This month, Step by Step columnist Merlin Hughes
takes a slight change of direction, with a look at computer
graphics programming. Specifically, he'll step you through the
process of drawing textured spheres. Along the way you'll...
06/01/1998
Write your own MOM!
In honor of Mother's Day, we're devoting this entire column to MOM
-- message-oriented middleware, that is.
This article investigates what makes MOM systems tick and how
they relate to RPC-oriented systems such as RMI. Step by
Step...
05/01/1998
Release your inner poet: Use servlets to create a collaborative poetry app
The Internet can be a lonely place: lots of people, surfing the
same Web sites at the same time, without ever getting to know each
other. In this month's installment of Step by
Step, we'll work to inject some community into the...
04/01/1998
Add the power of CORBA to our distributed whiteboard
Our last tango with our shared whiteboard app illustrated how to
use servlets to implement a communications layer. This month we're
going to move the communications layer to CORBA. CORBA provides a
lot of flexibility and power to...
03/01/1998
Draw the world: Create networked whiteboards with Java 1.1
Graphical applications programming has been greatly simplified with
the advent of JDK 1.1. Specifically, the lightweight component
framework allows transparent tools to be overlaid on each other,
and the delegation event framework...
11/01/1997
Increase the functionality in your distributed client/server apps
When we last left our handy Forum application, it consisted of a
Java client applet, a Java middleware layer, and a Microsoft SQL
Server database. The client and middleware layer communicated via
sockets, and the middleware layer and...
10/01/1997
Building a bevy of beans: Create reusable JavaBeans components
JavaBeans: visual, reusable software components. We can rebuild
them. We have the technology. We can make them better than before
-- better, stronger, faster. More powerful than any bean alive --
the six-million dollar JavaBean. Well,...
09/01/1997
Building a bevy of beans
JavaBeans has ushered Java into a whole new era. Not only does it
provide a rapid application development (RAD) environment, but it
also offers a general framework for the development of reusable
code libraries. And reusability is...
08/01/1997
Chart your way to custom graph components
Without graphs to visually describe data, we'd be stuck in board
rooms listening to CFOs verbally describe the upcoming fiscal year.
I don't know about you, but looking at a graph that covers the same
information in a much more...
07/01/1997
Scale an application from 2 to 3 tiers with JDBC
The Forum application that we created earlier this year is a pretty
nifty bulletin-board system, but it needs some work if we want to
make it a production-grade application. This month, we'll develop a
JDBC communications layer that...
06/01/1997
Moving to JDK 1.1: Using the delegation event model to create custom AWT components
JDK 1.1 brings a host of additions, alterations, and deprecations
to the somewhat sedentary API of JDK 1.0.2. Perhaps the most
significant of these changes is the new delegation event model of
the Abstract Windowing Toolkit and its...
05/01/1997
