Vodafone Adopts Java MoM for High Speed Mission Critical Messaging

May 15th, 2009 How many times have we talked about sleazy marketing strategies and lazy branding? Well, there are some who get away with cheap thrills like Sprite (whose only motto was to devalue Coke's rival Pepsi by mocking others), but then again, there are some who can give us the shock of our lives. Take Vodafone for example.

July 8th, 2005 After recent reports of several critical security vulnerabilities of PHP based software. I decided to take a closer look at the current state of security with PHP based products.

June 3rd, 2009 In a recent development, Sun Microsystem has joined hands with mobile phone majors Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications to make it easier and cheaper for the developers to bring Java programs to mobile phones. On Tuesday, Sun Microsystem released the new open-source testing tools in JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco.

August 16th, 2005 For mission-critical applications, the process of automating business policies, procedures, and business logic is often better managed by leveraging a Business Rule Engine. Using business rules can help you develop more agile applications with shorter time-to-market.

July 3rd, 2005 More power to Java on mobile platform - J2ME. Looking forward to see some concrete results.

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.

October 16th, 2005 James Gosling blogs about Java software performance myths and posts an interesting story (below). The comments contains few more stories from the trenches as they say.

November 18th, 2004 Please see my post on XP at Critical Commentary : Weblog This is another weblog by yours truly. It will focus on critical commentaries on products & technologies.

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.

August 17th, 2008 Ant is a popular, high quality Java based build and deployment tool from Apache Foundation. You can invoke Java programs in ant using the java task.

August 26th, 2007 Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.

August 23rd, 2007 Kind of gives you a clear indication where Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW) is headed, doesn't it? It does give me a warm feeling too knowing Sun is so much committed to Java, a language I have been working on since 1996. The change will go into effect on Aug.

June 23rd, 2008 While running some Java applications (like Thinreader) you may see this strange looking error - Couldn't find per display information. You may find this error when running such applications in JDK 6 or later.

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

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.