Friday, October 21, 2005

JBoss adds Drools business rules engine Looking to position its middleware as the industry's only open source SOA platform, JBoss has added the Drools Java business rules engine to its stable of products.


Creating and Using a Custom Render Kit Learn how to use JavaServer Faces technology to create a custom render kit for the purpose of rendering markup to non-HTML clients.


Become.com's Web Crawler: A Massively Scaled Java Technology Application Become.com, an innovative shopping search engine, has created a Java technology web crawler that passes through 3 billion pages in seven days and may be the most sophisticated and massively scaled Java technology application in existence.


Tech Tip: Learn about Locks One of the popular features of the J2SE 5.0 libraries is the addition of concurrency utilities. Locking is one of the areas improved by the concurrency utilities. Learn more in this tech tip.


Ensuring Speed and Openness at the Java Community Process: A Conversation With Onno Kluyt Onno Kluyt, senior director and chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), talks about his efforts to make the JCP smoother, faster, and more open.


UML Modeling in Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 Find out how to create modeling projects, add diagrams, generate code, and build reports for diagrams.


Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 Tutorial Series The latest quick-start guides explain how to use features of the IDE, such as how to use UML modeling to develop enterprise applications.


Overview of Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 This milestone release of the IDE offers significant enhancements: get the specifics here and give the IDE a try.