Identity Management Made Easy with OpenSSO

Sun's open-source identity services initiative aims to provide an extensible foundation for an identity services infrastructure in the public domain, facilitating single sign-on (SSO) and cross-domain single sign-on (CDSSO) for web applications, federation capabilities, and secure Web services. Find out how it measures up.

Book Excerpt: Murach's Java Servlets and JSP (Second Edition)

The JSTL provides tags for common tasks that need to be performed in JSPs. Coupled with Expression Language, this allows you to remove much of the Java scripting from your applications, making your pages easier for web designers to work with and easier for you to maintain.

Access Your Stored Java Objects with the Iterator Design Pattern

Clean up clumsy and wasteful code with the iterator design pattern.

Soup-to-Nuts Application Management with JMX

Not just another time-eating "solution," JMX actually offers real application monitoring and manageability. Learn about the JMX architecture, the JMX API, and dig into some code.

NetBeans 6.1: Worth a Try

The new NetBeans IDE is like a Swiss Army knife; it offers many different tools, and youre almost guaranteed to find something you like or soon need.

NEW: ClockApplet

This simple component allows you to show the correct local time in a specified time zone for your Web page. The applet is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v1.0.

UPDATED: Moving Fractal Tree

The latest version of this mathematical fractal tree corrects a bug that made it disappear from screen when it was dragged it with certain mouses.

Good Old Starfield

A retro, 3D animation with a little rotation. Supported by Java 1.3.

UPDATED: World Clock

World Clock is java applet that show real time including daylight savings time in 74 major cities in all the world. New in version 1.2: a new look and 14 new cities added.

Reverse Complement

Reverse Complement is a simple applet that converts DNA or RNA sequences into three useful formats.

Java as a Scripting Language?
September 3, 2008 --
Java code is obviously more verbose and uglier, matching many people's opinion of Java in general. But is this because of the language or the API? Java's APIs are all very general and give you complete control over everything you do. (Javalobby)

Is java.io.Serializable Legacy?
September 2, 2008 --
Has one of the GoF patterns siltently died? (Javalobby)

Google to Shake Up Browsers with Own Launch
September 2, 2008 --
Putting the rumors to rest, Google has unveiled plans for an open source Web browser it plans to launch today in more than 100 countries. (www.internetnews.com)

Java 7: Sun's Good Grooming
September 1, 2008 --
The upcoming Java 7 shows all the signs of being a major release, on the order of Java 5. It has numerous features that will make Java easier to develop with, and that will lead to cleaner, better code. (SD Times on the Web)

Demand for Spring Skills Dominates Java Programming
August 28, 2008 --
Job listings for Java projects that require the open source Spring framework now outnumber those that want EJB-building skills, the hallmark of traditional enterprise Java programming. (InformationWeek.com)

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