Producing Enterprise Architecture:
A Conversation with Sun's Dan Hushon, Part Two In the final part of a two-part interview, Sun Microsystems' Dan Hushon talks about adaptive enterprise architectures, the market for developers, Java Centers of Excellence, and loosely coupled components.

Getting Started with Java Message Service (JMS)
The Java Message Service (JMS) is designed to allow Java applications to use enterprise messaging systems. It makes it easy to develop enterprise applications that asynchronously send and receive business data and events. Learn how to implement it for your business.

Java Calendar Component v1.1

Java Calendar Component v1.1
A new version of JCC date selection swing component has been released. Major changes are:

- added combo box feature;
- added skin styles;
- improved rendering engine;

JavaDesktop milestone
More than 200 projects strong

[ 05 Nov ][ Article ]: NetBeans IDE 4.0 Applet Tutorial
This tutorial shows you how to import, create, debug, and deploy applets in NetBeans IDE 4.0. This tutorial can be completed in 20 minutes.

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Early Access 2 Released
The NetBeans open source project is proud to announce Early Access release 2 of the NetBeans IDE 4.1.

For downloads of this release go to:
http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

For the quick start guide, see:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/quickstart-j2ee.html

This early access release has over 15 new modules for developing Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 applications and is built on the novel and breakthrough NetBeans 4.0 technology. Users can developprograms for Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), and now J2EE Enterprise Java Bean (EJB)components and Web Services. Using the free Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 Release Candidate as the deployment runtime and with NetBeans guiding the developer and automatically building the underlying J2EE infrastructure, learning about and developing J2EE 1.4 applications has never been easier. To further assist the developer, J2EE Java BluePrints catalog is also included.

With a pure Java technology integrated development environment and cross platform availability for Windows, Linux and the Solaris Operating System, this is the best time to get a look at the future.

The next release is the Beta release and planned for February, 2005.

For more information on NetBeans 4.1 features and schedule you can visit the NetBeans 4.1 Planning Page.

A Linux Island in a C:\ of Windows, Part 2
Connecting your Linux VM to the company network and to rest of the world.

Using JConsole to Monitor Applications
JConsole is the Java Monitoring and Management Console, a new graphical tool shipped in J2SE JDK 5.0. This article describes how JConsole can be used to observe information about an application running on the Java platform, with an overview of the J2SE 5.0 monitoring and management architecture and how JConsole plugs into the architecture.

ClientJava.com Links(5) - MDI or Not, Client Communications, Simprit S

The Rich Web Client conundrum
Rich Web based applications are far from "new", but there still doesn't seem to be a general consensus on how they should be constructed. To the contrary, there are a dizzying array of options for constructing both the client and the server parts of the equation. Perhaps it will help to review the basics...

In reality, there are only three options for implementing the client-side of a Rich Web UI...

Simprit Swing 1.1 - Swing components lib
Simprit Swing is an addon package for Java Swing. It enhances Java Swing components and provides new Swing components like link button, tool bar pane (container of multiple tool bars), calendar pane, date picker, text fields, etc.

Servlets: Tons of Funneling and Tunneling Fun
Sometimes when developing a server-side application, a time arises to consider client-side interfaces (thin clients), whether it be through Java web start, an applet, or a standard application the users install on their machine. Centralized data (data on the server) is still a must however, and that means that you have to find a way to get data down to the client applications from the server.

To MDI or not to MDI?
I often hear programmers complain that Swing does not support true MDI. As of yet, SWT doesn't support MDI at all, although the SWT project has said that they fully intend to add MDI support. However, I don't see what the big deal is. If you find yourself wanting to use MDI in today's world, then you are probably doing something wrong and should rethink your UI design...

Using JConsole to Monitor Applications
JConsole is a Swing-based application introduced in J2SE 5.0 that uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java virtual machine to provide information on performance and resource consumption of applications running on the Java platform. This article by Mandy Chung (who designed and implemented the VM monitoring and management interface in JDK 5.0) describes the monitoring and management architecture, how JConsole plugs into it, and how to use JConsole to perform such tasks as detecting deadlocks and controlling the log level.