Lee Chuk-Munn shows how a management framework can be used to check on a Java application that is running.

Many apps fail to make full use of the capabilities of the JIT compiler.In this article we investigate some simple tricks to identify issues that may be making your application unfriendly to JIT.

Chuck Phillips reports that the boom in application servers now raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created.

<p>We recently wrote about reinstalling Java to correct problems with various applications including Mail and Safari. While this may be useful for some users, Apple has released a knowledgebase ...

Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to port Java applications to the .Net Framework.

I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt that such an apples-to-apples comparison was unfair. The general consensus from the Python community ...

Did you ever wish your Java code could be dynamic like JavaServer Pages? That it could be modified and recompiled at runtime, with your application updating itself on the fly? This article shows ...

In today's 24-7 world, high-availability is an important requirement for any Web application. Specially designed infrastructures can help increase the availability of Web applications, but ...

A lot of Java applications today can be extended viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. Lee Chuk-Munn shows how.

A Java Web application is a self-contained collection of configuration files, static and dynamic resources, compiled classes and support libraries that are all treated as a cohesive unit by the ...