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An Introduction to Concurrent Java Programming By Stephen B. Morris May 12, 2009 Stephen Morris provides an easy on-ramp to Java concurrency, an often-neglected coding area.

Applied Big Data Analysis in the Real World with MapReduce and Hadoop By Steven Haines Jan 23, 2013 In the third article in this series, Java programming expert Steven Haines demonstrates how to build a meaningful Hadoop MapReduce application to analyze hourly website usage from a set of Apache HTTP Server logs.

Big Data Analysis with MapReduce and Hadoop By Steven Haines Jan 9, 2013 Steven Haines presents an overview of Hadoop’s architecture and demonstrates, from a high-level, how to build a MapReduce application.

Building a MapReduce Application with Hadoop By Steven Haines Jan 16, 2013 In the second article in this series on Java programming and Hadoop, Java programming expert Steven Haines explains what a MapReduce application is and how to build a simple one.

Dependency Injection the Easy Way By Jesse Smith Mar 31, 2015 Dependency injection (DI) can be a somewhat difficult concept to grasp and even more confusing to apply to new or existing applications. Jesse Smith shows you how to perform DI without an injection container by using either C# or Java.

From Mathematics to Generic Programming: An Interview with Alexander Stepanov and Daniel Rose By John Lakos, Alexander A. Stepanov, Daniel E. Rose Feb 16, 2015 John Lakos interviews Alexander Stepanov and Daniel Rose, authors of From Mathematics to Generic Programming, on their new book, why it applies to everyday programmers, and their positions on some closely related technical issues — including value semantics, concepts, contracts, and polymorphic memory resources — facing the C++ Standards Committee today.

Further Steps with the Java Sound API By Stephen B. Morris Apr 7, 2008 Stephen B. Morris explores your options for writing Java to record audio.

How Not To Get Burned By Your Next Java Project By Pete McBreen Feb 15, 2002 This article follows up on Pete McBreen's earlier article "How to Crash and Burn Your Java Project" with survival strategies for developers so that the impact of poor decision-making is minimized.

How to Crash and Burn Your Java Project By Pete McBreen Dec 14, 2001 Pete McBreen presents a fly-on-the-wall perspective on the strange things project teams do to ensure that their Java project never manages to deliver anything useful.

Integrating Play for Java and Akka By Steven Haines Jun 23, 2014 Learn how to integrate Play with Akka to create highly scalable and resilient applications.

Introduction to "The Java Language Specification, Java SE 8 Edition" By James Gosling, Gilad Bracha, Alex Buckley, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jun 12, 2014 The authors of The Java Language Specification, Java SE 8 Edition introduce the book and the specs of Java SE 8.

Introduction to Play 2 for Java By Steven Haines Jun 9, 2014 Learn about when you might want to use Play Framework to help you set up a development environment, and walk through building your first Hello, Play application.

Java EJB 3.0: A Hibernate Clone? By Marcus Zarra Apr 28, 2006 Sun's EJB 3.0 specification is sitting at final draft, and many companies are working toward complying with the specification. Among the many benefits of this latest version of the Enterprise Java Beans specification is better database connectivity. But some developers feel that the EJB 3.0 specification is merely a cut-and-paste job from the Hibernate persistence engine. True? Marcus Zarra sorts it out.

Java Servlet Technology Primer By Budi Kurniawan May 24, 2002 In this article, Budi Kurniawan shows you the benefits of servlets and explains how they work, their architecture, and how to run your own servlet.

Lucene: A Tutorial Introduction to Full-Text Indexing in Java By John Ferguson Smart Apr 14, 2006 John Smart provides a quick intro to Lucene, a powerful and elegant library for full-text indexing and searching in Java, with which you can add rich full-text search functionality to your Java web application.

Robert C. Martin's Clean Code Tip #12: Eliminate Boolean Arguments By Robert C. Martin Aug 25, 2009 We join "The Craftsman," Robert C. Martin's series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this twelfth tip in the series, the crew learns that Boolean arguments loudly declare that the function does more than one thing. They are confusing and should be eliminated.

Simple Sorting in Java By H. Medina Apr 18, 2003 Should you be comparing, swapping, or bubbling your data? Learn the basics of bubble, selection, and insertion sorts and figure out which one is the best for you.

Test-Driven Development from a Conventional Software Testing Perspective, Part 2 By Jonathan Kohl Apr 21, 2006 Now that Jonathan Kohl had had some experience working with a test-driven development (TDD) expert, he needed to try TDD on his own. In part 2 of this series, he discusses his trial-and-error effort at learning TDD skills.

The Java EE 7 Tutorial: Getting Started with Web Applications By Eric Jendrock, Ricardo Cervera-Navarro, Ian Evans, Kim Haase, William Markito Jun 5, 2014 This chapter introduces web applications, which typically use JavaServer Faces technology and/or Java Servlet technology.

Using Java Strings to Communicate By Rogers Cadenhead Dec 13, 2002 Teach your Java application to speak: use the language to store, retrieve, and manipulate strings — collections of letters, numbers, punctuation, and other characters.