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By Jordan Anastasiade
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.
Dec. 31, 2003 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 10,496
By Jordan Anastasiade
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.
Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 16,174
By Jordan Anastasiade
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...
Feb. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 8,258
By Jordan Anastasiade
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 patt...
Jun. 1, 1997 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 8,774
By Jordan Anastasiade
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 lac...
Apr. 1, 1997 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 7,404