James McGovern

CIOs are seeking to reduce the risk associated with investing in mission-critical enterprise applications and gain control over how vendor offerings are evaluated and selected. IT investments are no longer allowed to fail and must work correctly the first time. This session will ... (more)

Enterprises often resort to costly, inflexible, solutions from proprietary vendors as they look to build or upgrade infrastructure for deploying and managing business applications. Use of open source software within the enterprise is gaining traction in the minds of architects. T... (more)

Unlike the doctor who works for your HMO, I won't require a copayment for each visit nor ask you to fill out long arduous forms. I'm here to help readers of Java Developer's Journal find a cure for their Java system ills. Q: I'm constructing a tree from a file and I need a way to ... (more)

Unlike the doctor who works for your HMO, I won't require a copayment for each visit nor ask you to fill out long arduous forms.  I'm here to help readers of Java Developer's Journal find a cure for their Java system ills. Q. What unique parameters accessible from pure Java can be... (more)

Many development shops have used J2EE to build a successful business-logic tier but have fallen short on obtaining the desired look and feel. On my current project we considered using applets as substitutes for GIF-based buttons, creating a utility to modify tree-based structure ... (more)

I'm developing an Internet application where the user can register. How would i check if the e-mail address entered is valid? I have a couple of ideas you can implement. First, I suggest using JavaScript in the browser to check for allowable characters by scanning the input. The ... (more)

The performance of J2EE-based applications sometimes doesn't live up to users' expectations. Usually it's impossible to quantify exactly where the bottlenecks are. Many developers spend time searching for articles on the Internet only to find the same old tips about using the syn... (more)

Unlike the doctor that works for your HMO, Doctor Java is here to help you with all of your Java problems. The good Doc will not require a copayment for each visit nor ask you to fill out long arduous forms. The Doctor is here to help the readers of Java Developer's Journal find ... (more)

There are many articles about basic performance tuning a Java application. They all discuss simple techniques such as using a StringBuffer versus using a String, and the overhead of using the synchronized keyword. This article doesn't cover any of this. Instead we focus on tips th... (more)

JSP Tag Libraries by Gal Schachor, Adam Chace, and Magnus Rydin Published by Manning Publications Co. Price: $44.95 Tag libraries were introduced into the Java specification to solve many of the limitations of using scriptlets (bits of Java code) as part of a JSP page. The main li... (more)

In my travels I've run across lots of bad Java code (some of which I've written myself). Usually it's due to unrealistic project deadlines, bad estimates for how long something will take, no architecture in place, and developers' not really understanding the subtleties of the lan... (more)

Database Programming with JDBC and Java by George Reese Published by O'Reilly & Associates Database Programming with JDBC and Java was originally published four years ago and is now in its second revision. Significantly improved over the first edition, the book is targeted toward ... (more)

This is my first book review for Java Developer's Journal. As coauthor of a competing book, I figured I'd be very critical of the author's writing and the book's content. I must admit I'm pleasantly surprised; this is a really good book and, in many ways, better than the book I c... (more)