Things are not going well at Continental Flange. The corporate Website’s performance has degraded to the point where frustrated customers are searching for other suppliers. The IT operations staff ...

When it comes to J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), you don’t know a hill of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). Don’t worry, you’ll find plenty of reading material to give you a hand. In fact, you ...

The dirty little secret behind the success of J2EE is that Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) can be devilishly hard to create, deploy, and manage. True, EJBs aren't the only way to build useful Java ...

Thirteen years ago, 13 Sun Microsystems employees took on the daunting task of figuring out the "next wave of computing." The question had certainly been asked before--but rarely has it been answered ...

J2EE, however, also has a strong following, particularly amongst large companies that years ago learned their lessons about the need for open software after forking over exorbitant maintenance fees ...

As more companies utilize the Internet in their business, Web applications have come into widespread use. These Web applications are typically delivered via tools such as load balancers, HTTP Web ...

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

You’d have to be living in a vacuum not to be aware of the debate that rages between proponents of the two dominant development platform contenders: Java 2 Enterprise Edition and .Net. Many articles ...

What are the differences? How prepared is one to work with J2EE after working with J2SE? Sun's website says the following about J2EE. Does this pretty much sum up the differences, or is there more?

The verbal punches tossed in the clash between Java and .NET may never end -- but for now it seems that the app servers supporting these software environments both have a place. Evidence suggests that ...

J2EE Web services: A marriage of convenience As specified in the following snippet taken from the J2EE specification, the J2EE platform contains details on the implementation, assembly, deployment and ...