This article discusses using JSP in the enterprise, providing the presentation tier of a Web application. Dion walks readers through some of the problems they will face using JSP, and offers some practical solutions. Readers will see how tag libraries allow the page writer and Java programmer to add another layer of abstraction.
Forté for Java 2.0 Community Edition is an integrated development environment designed specifically for Java developers. Mitch discusses the features of the freeware product, as well as some problem areas.
EJB technology enables client programs to access services and database entities remotely. The performance and scalability of applications that use enterprise beans can suffer if client programs pass large objects to enterprise beans, or make many remote methods call on them. To remedy these performance and scalability problems, users can include methods in the enterprise beans' interfaces that allow client programs to define mobile actions and perform them on their enterprise beans. Roger outlines the four approaches a client program can use to iterate through a large collection of server objects.