Effective Enterprise Java

Whenever someone tells me that adopting their beliefs could give me the same type of life they have, I tell them that that's exactly what...

Java communications APIs can be classified along three axes of interest: transport, format, and communication patterns. Every communications API must move across some sort of communications...

Quiz time: What, precisely, does the term location transparency mean in its original context? In the early days of networks, it was a rare scenario when...

Although this usually doesn't come as much of a surprise to developers when they stop to think about it, it costs a great deal of...

Context-complete communication offers a number of advantages that context-incomplete calls don't. The notion of context turns out to be a major component in distributed design...

Over the years, IPC has steadily evolved from the idea of "shipping data from one process to another" to "making a function (or method) call...

One of the drawbacks of the request-response communications model is embedded in its very intent: we have to wait for the response. It seems pretty...

Almost from the very beginning, clustering and failover and other such words have been a part of the J2EE programmer's lexicon. In fact, they've been...

Enterprise systems tend to be heterogeneous in nature. They may not start that way, but in the fast-changing dynamic environment of the IT shop, much...

Consider, if you will, your run-of-the-mill entity bean (either container-managed or bean-managed, it makes no real difference) representing some detail about a person, perhaps from...

Recall, for a moment, that one of the benefits of an RPC-based communication system like RMI is that it's easy for developers to work with—it...