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.

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

You might be a Java purist, but as Microsoft's .Net grows more popular so does the demand to migrate Java or Visual J++ (VJ++) applications to Visual J# or Visual C#. Several existing client ...

One way to cut through marketing hype when evaluating Java Web application tools is to look back at basic Java Web development tools and see where the new tool takes you from there. Adding new tools ...

<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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Waratek responded quickly and launched Java Application Security which detects and ...

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