Effective Enterprise Java

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits...

If anything, a J2EE application is all about accessing resources outside of the JVM: the relational database (JDBC), messaging systems (JMS), other objects running in...

With the release of JDK 1.3, Sun made an important enhancement to the Java Virtual Machine: specifically, they released Hotspot, an optimizing virtual machine that...

One of the touted features of the Microsoft .NET platform has been its support for "side-by-side versioning"—in other words, a successor version of the .NET...

The ClassLoader architecture owns responsibility for the most fundamental task of the JVM, that of loading code into the JVM and making it available for...

Java Object Serialization is a wonderful thing. It allows a Java programmer to take an object and reduce it to a stream of bytes just...

We've all heard the conventional wisdom—it has been trumpeted from magazine articles, books, even the conference and lecture circuit: Java object allocation is slow. Minimize...

Java developers coming from the servlet/JSP environment into the EJB environment are frequently surprised to learn how restrictive, by comparison, the EJB environment is. Enterprise...

So, having read Item 72 and facing a situation where just waiting for the garbage collector isn't going to work—you need to know when the...

For years, Java developers have had something of a love/hate relationship with code outside the JVM. Quite frequently, we need to get at that code,...