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Optimizing Web Services Using Java, part II - Increased flexibility, reusability, and power

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

In the first article of this series (WSJ, Vol. 3, issue 12), I described generic Java and examined the issues involved in supporting variant generic types in Java. That article also explained how generic variant types increase the readability, maintainability, and safety of our code.

Optimizing Web Services Using Java, Part I - Generic Java and Web services

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

What lies behind Web services? Some say the answer depends on the power of the language used in the implementation, in addition to known standards like XML, SOAP, and WSDL.

Designing Objects for Concurrency in Java

Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:00:00 EST

Despite extensive development over many years and significant demonstrated benefits, the object-oriented paradigm remains poorly formalized. Several concurrent object-oriented languages have been designed and implemented based on the concurrent object model. However, upon attempting to apply formal techniques to a significant application, several well known shortcomings actually impeded progress dramatically right at the outset.

Designing Objects for Concurrency

Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00:00 EDT

Java was designed to have all of the best features of existing languages. However, Java has no concept of asynchronous behavior. This is the main reason the threading mechanism is so important and that concurrent programming techniques are evolving quickly to the point where known patterns, whose behaviors are well understood, will become an integral part of the common Java environment.

Designing Objects for Concurrency

Tue, 01 Apr 1997 00:00:00 EST

Java's support for concurrency is sufficient enough to achieve a wide range of desired results. While the primitives provided are very powerful, they can also be easily misused and may lead to unpredictable behavior. It is well known that in a multithreaded environment, due to the lack of mature tools available, the debugging process could easily modify the state of the program being debugged.