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 c... (more)

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. Developing Web services is hard since incorrect use of the language can cause subtle and pernicious errors.... (more)

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 attempt... (more)

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 know... (more)

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 th... (more)