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After years of simpler maintenance releases, the Servlet API is getting a major overhaul for Java EE 6, improving ease of use, configurability, pluggability, security, and more. In this article, Deepa Sobhana offers a detailed overview of what's changing and why.

Databases are growing in both size and complexity. Applications to process the data are also increasing in size and complexity. With the growing complexity, solid testing becomes more and more important. Ideally we would like to test all changes against up-to-date production data, so the general practice is use a copy of the production database for testing.

We are pleased to announce the second beta of the AJAX-based Echo3 web framework and initial beta of our Eclipse-based EchoStudio development tool. Echo3 is an open source, component-based AJAX framework which provides the capability to create applications using either a client-side JavaScript or server-side Java API...

A guide to legacy modernization using SOA Integration and Re-architecture to an Oracle platform.

AquaFold has released Aqua Data Studio 7.0, a major upgrade to its multi-platform database administration and query tool. 7.0 includes a new Entity Relationship Modeler, new DBA Tools, new Debuggers and much more. The new version has also been translated into 11 different lanuguages. The new release includes ...

Ajax allows us to build Web 2.0 applications with ease. However, it also raises a number of questions. One such very pertinent question is regarding user authentication. User authentication simply means checking the authenticity of the user, How should...

SpringSource has released the SpringSource dm Server, a modular, OSGi-based Java server to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications. SpringSource dm Server claims to be the only application server expressly designed to run Spring applications.

In this interview we speak to Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows, the founders of Kaazing. Kaazing is the creator of the Kaazing Enterprise Gateway product and is active in the real-time bi-directional internet technology space with the Kaazing gateway leveraging...

A new discussion about scripting languages has experts talking of the use, growing adoption and the changing attitudes towards scripting languages. The panelists seem very optimistic of the future of scripting languages and look at them as real alternatives to more accepted languages like...

The programming techniques lumped under the name of Ajax can have unintended consequences that actually make development more difficult and hurt application performance. In response, Robbie Cheng offers a model he calls Direct Ajax that, in effect, involves server-based processing rather than the traditional Ajax division of labor.