Many apps fail to make full use of the capabilities of the JIT compiler.In this article we investigate some simple tricks to identify issues that may be making your application unfriendly to JIT.

Java applications that use higher JDK versions can also use the Upgrade Wizard to migrate the greater part of the application (business logic, JDK-level 1.1.4 classes, and most of the JDK 1.2 java ...

I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt that such an apples-to-apples comparison was unfair. The general consensus from the Python community ...

The authors discuss best practices drawn from their work in designing Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) applications that maintain 100 percent availability.

Lee Chuk-Munn shows how a management framework can be used to check on a Java application that is running. Written by Lee Chuk-Munn, Contributor Sept. 14, 2006, 7:17 p.m. PT ...

Because it has end-to-end visibility of Java applications, Waratek JAS provides protection at every stage of the attack lifecycle including: -Inspection of risky API calls and network access ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Sun provides two class hierarchies for developing Java applications with graphical user interfaces. The first, the Abstract Window Toolkit, has been distributed with Java since version 1.0. A picture ...

A lot of Java applications today can be extended viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. Lee Chuk-Munn shows how. Written by Lee Chuk-Munn, ContributorApril 7 ...