- A Trio of Tips for AWT Programs
- Apr 13, 2001
- "Java Jeff" Friesen presents a trio of tips to enhance your Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) programs.
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- Accessing Google Maps in Android Apps
- Dec 30, 2013
- This article explains how to use Google Maps Android API V2 in Android applications.
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- Accessing Web Services Through Android Apps
- Nov 26, 2013
- Bintu Harwani describes how to use publicly available web services to access and return all sorts of useful information on the Web via smartphone.
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- Accordion
- Dec 11, 2006
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- Adapter Development Methodology and Best Practices
- Sep 26, 2002
- Integration and adapter software development require a different type of project management. Learn some methodologies to help lead you through the analysis, design, coding, and QA.
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- Adding Multithreading Capability to Your Java Applications
- Apr 12, 2002
- Cay Horstmann shows you how to add multithreading capability to your Java applications and applets in this sample chapter from Core Java 2, Volume II: Advanced Features, 5th edition.
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- Adding Sound to Applications with the MIDP 2.0 Media API
- Oct 17, 2003
- With the MIDP 2.0 Media API, you can add sound to your games and other applications, playing tones, tone sequences, and different kinds of audio in MIDP devices.
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- Advanced AJAX with JSON
- Oct 13, 2006
- Kris Hadlock explains how to create complex JSON data transfers between the client and server, by using AJAX and the JSON parser.
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- Advanced JavaServer Pages Security
- Apr 5, 2002
- In this sample chapter from Advanced JavaServer Pages, author David Geary discusses protecting web application resources with the authentication mechanisms described in the servlet specification.
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- Advanced Tips for More Powerful Tables
- Nov 20, 2001
- After you've mastered the basics of the Swing table component, you can take advantage of some advanced tips. In this article, Jeff Friesen shows you how to build fancy column headers and create progress cells.
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- Ajax Construction Kit: Creating Responsive GUIs with Real-Time Validation
- Aug 4, 2007
- Learn when to inject real-time validation into your own apps.
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- AJAX Tips and Tricks
- Nov 17, 2006
- If you're developing in AJAX, author Kris Hadlock has a few tricks you can use to avoid common issues and speed up your AJAX development time. This article shows you how to prevent cached AJAX requests, debug AJAX code with FireBug, and create a database connection.
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- All about Eclipse Plug-ins
- Apr 1, 2005
- This chapter provides an overview of how plug-ins function in Eclipse in the form of Frequently Asked Questions. Included are questions about the core concepts of the Eclipse kernel, including plug-ins, extension points, fragments.
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- Alternative API: SAX
- Apr 12, 2002
- Benoit Marchal discusses how to read XML documents with SAX, the powerful API, in this sample chapter from XML by Example.
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- Alternatives to XML Schemas
- Mar 22, 2002
- XML Schemas may not be right for every application. In this article, David Gulbransen describes situations in which RELAX NG or Schematron may be a better choice as a schema, or how they could supplement XML Schemas.
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- An Indepth Look into Analysis and Design
- Oct 22, 2001
- Steven Haines shows you the benefits of requirements gathering and a good up-front design.
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- An Interview with Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones on Elements of Programming
- Aug 3, 2009
- Andrew Binstock interviews Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones, the authors of The Elements of Programming, on their new book, decomposing software, why C++ was their choice for the book, and their perspectives on OO and generic programming.
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- An Introduction to Catastrophe Disentanglement for Software Projects
- May 4, 2006
- Just as the smart thing to do when a ball of twine seems hopelessly entangled is to stop whatever we are doing with it (otherwise, the tangle gets worse), so it is with a disastrous project; the longer we keep at it, the worse it gets. At some point, we need to halt all activity and reassess what we are doing. This chapter introduces you to the concept of catastrophe disentanglement.
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- An Introduction to Concurrent Java Programming
- May 12, 2009
- Stephen Morris provides an easy on-ramp to Java concurrency, an often-neglected coding area.
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- An Introduction to Generics in Java
- Mar 19, 2004
- Genericity? One of the most anticipated and debated enhancements to the Java language in Sun's new 1.5 release is generics. John Anthony and Scott Chalfant provide an introduction to this new feature and help you explore some of its more-advanced features and avoid potential difficulties.
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