Use software components to deploy applications with Java Cards
In much of Europe, smart card technology has taken the tedium out of many forms of ebusiness, freeing consumers from having to provide personal information every time they want to conduct a...
View ArticleHow handlers work in Web-accessible home automation
Developing consistent, reliable Web applications that interface with such different devices as home networks, home automation systems, and realtime telemetry devices can be vastly simplified by...
View ArticleServe clients' specific protocol requirements with Brazil, Part 1
Reusing code to concurrently support different interface options is not an easy task for a developer. The purpose of this series is to facilitate this process by showing you how to build a simple...
View ArticleServe clients' specific protocol requirements with Brazil, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the concept of a developer-friendly experimental Web server technology called Brazil. The Brazil technology supports additional functionality via handlers, the...
View ArticleServe clients' specific protocol requirements with Brazil, Part 3
In Part 1 of this Brazil technology series, I introduced the concept of a developer-friendly experimental Web server technology called Brazil. The Brazil technology supports additional functionality...
View ArticleServe clients' specific protocol requirements with Brazil, Part 4
So far in this series, I have discussed how to meet client protocol requirements utilizing Brazil technology. You have learned how to use Java applets, JavaScript, BSL, plain text, Palm query...
View ArticleServe clients' specific protocol requirements with Brazil, Part 6
Brazil is a third-generation HTTP server that provides an extensible, understandable framework for building small, application-specific HTTP servers. In Parts 1 through 5 of this series, I discussed...
View ArticleTin cans and string
The purpose of the applets I provide here is to demonstrate some ways by which applets communicate with each other and to get you started on your own implementations. Four examples demonstrate ways...
View ArticleMonitor your Web server in real time, Part 1
There are a number of factors involved in the successful delivery of Web pages to browsers. One is the quality of the content, and another is the quality of the service in terms of availability and...
View ArticleMonitor your Web server in realtime, Part 2
Give the current Percollator applet a try. The Panel defaults to the current file. Load it by depressing the "Load URL" button. A URL is generated and the corresponding file on the server is read. The...
View ArticleJava in embedded systems
This article will look at Java in the Real Time industry from a Business and Technology stand point. A more technical description of some of the issues, a short review of what is in JavaOS and a small...
View ArticleBandwidth hunger
Iam starting to spend a good part of my life waiting for things to download -- about one hour a day on average. I try to do other things during the wait but I tend to loose focus and forget what I was...
View ArticleMonitor your Web server in real time, part 3
This is the last and final installment in the Percollator series. The Percollator applet has been developed over several columns in JavaWorld. The data for Percollator is generated by Percollator.se...
View ArticleAdd persistence and peer-to-peer computing to Java applets hosted by Netscape...
In the past, developers have used several different techniques -- cookies, CGI scripts, and LiveScript, to name a few -- to create persistence and to perform computing on the server. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleUse native methods to expand the Java environment
The JNI provides a documented and supported specification that allows programs written in other languages to be called from Java. Calling Java from an application written in another language is often...
View ArticleSmart cards: A primer
Smart cards have been getting a lot of buzz lately on the Web, at the JavaOne conference last April (four sessions dealt with the technology), on the big network news stations, and on CNN. In this...
View ArticleSmart cards and the OpenCard Framework
The previous Java Developer column, "Smart cards: A primer", gave a general overview of smart cards and how they work. It included a section on smart card standards, introducing the concept of...
View ArticleGet a jumpstart on the Java Card
This month's Java Developer column, the third in a series on smart cards, will start by describing the CyberFlex card from Schlumberger. We will then write a program for this card, convert it to "card...
View ArticleUnderstanding Java Card 2.0
This article begins with an overview of smart cards and a brief review of ISO 7816, the smart card standard. Given the background on smart cards in previous Java Developer columns, this installment...
View ArticleAn introduction to the Java Ring
This month's column is split into two parts. The first part, embodied in this article, offers the history of the Java Ring and the technology used to build it, as well as a brief discussion of the...
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