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Today's Internet-driven economy has accelerated users' expectations for unfettered access to information resources and transparent data exchange among applications. This exchange requires a deep ...

The MDR is an extended implementation of the Meta-Object Facility, XML Metadata Interchange, and Java Metadata Interface standards. It provides a runtime access to the metadata via a set of generated ...

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Beehive 1.0, its component toolkit for J2EE and Struts. Beehive is aimed at making it easier to develop Web applications in Java by reducing ...

Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

Before the Java language was known as Java, it was called Oak—a language for building embedded applications on smart consumer electronics. However, the idea of networked smart devices everywhere was ...