Java / J2EE Needs to Add Ease of Use (Redundant) Methods

January 17th, 2006 Java comes in with a handy logging package (java.util.logging) which eliminates the need to use external logging packages like Log4J. However it still requires some configuration which makes it cumbersome and repetitive to include in every class.

January 9th, 2007 Security vendor Imperva has identified an access-control vulnerability in DWR, Java Open Source AJAX development framework (stable release 1.1.3 and 2.0), which it says an attacker can use to compromise a DWR based application which may in turn enable him to say break into back-end databases or servers or launch a denial-of-service-attack. On a positive note Imperva commented that DWR, AJAX Web application development framework, is "emerging as the lingua franca for building new generation Web 2.0 applications" :) Forceful Method Invocation Attacks The key issue is how DWR restricts access to not exposed class methods.

August 16th, 2005 Back to The POJO days and lots of goodies scheduled with Java Enterprise Edition 5.

July 7th, 2005 An excellent article, with screenshots, describing in details the ease of use of Java Studio Creator and JSF (using Java Studio Creator). The author is pretty impressed with the product.

August 16th, 2005 Summary Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2 DP4 for Tiger Java Software is Carving a Niche in Critical Real-Time Applications Market Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use JSR 244, the umbrella specification that defines what other specifications and capabilities will be included as part of Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5), public review specification was unanimously approved by the JCP EC. The theme of this release is ease of development.

October 22nd, 2007 Communication between Java applets has been an interesting topic from the early days of Java. There are several esoteric ways to communicate like using Javascript as a bridge.

May 3rd, 2006 Here is a list of top 10 java features I constantly use and highly recommend; features which makes Java great as a language and platform. JSP & Servlets - Most of java development today is arguably done on JSP & Servlets.

May 5th, 2006 This is a list of top 10 features missing in Java, features that I think will help Java survive and thrive in 21st century. As Java developers let's take this occassion to raise our voice and let our demands be heard.

March 15th, 2005 J2SE stands for Java 2 Standard Edition. The 2 stands for version 2 of the platform.

June 6th, 2006 Often we need to create a (client) socket connection in java but we do not want to wait indefinitely for the connection to open. We need a way to timeout socket connections.

August 23rd, 2008 First tell me what is the best way to concatenate large number of String objects? Is it a + b? Most Java developers know not to use a + b (+ operator) because of huge performance problems, they use StringBuffer instead. In fact I did some tests in the past which confirms this folklore.

September 14th, 2009 You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them.

April 10th, 2008 JInvite is a simple Java API which makes it easy to add invite capabilities to Java - the ability for existing members of your web service to invite other members. This capability was in the early days of GMail and now widely adopted by Web 2.0 (beta) sites for limiting site load and gradually increasing capacities.

September 8th, 2008 While debugging code Java programmers often use System.out.println(). It is important to write separate message in each System.out.println() so you can understand from the output where the problem lies.

February 17th, 2006 Java SE 6 Beta offers the first feature complete version of next major release of the Java SE platform. Sun expects to ship the final release of Java SE 6 in the fall of 2006.