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• May 13, 2000

JAVA BUZZ
Philip J. Gill
Still Dreaming of Jini?; Sun Wants to Seed Market with Open-Source FortŽ for Java; RSA releases Cert-J; Linux Developers Desperate, Survey Says; Put Your Beans to the Test; JSTAR Claims 600% Java Application Performance Improvement; and more.

REAL WORLD JAVA
A Prescription for Health
Philip J. Gill
Hawaiian Health Systems Corp. is a public benefits corporation that is a leading provider of health care services. HHSC is constantly looking for ways to improve operating efficiency and lowering costs. Among those improvements are in its IT infrastructure. After settling on Java, HHSC chose the 7M Enterprise software framework and development platform, which includes 7M Integrate, a new, all-Java development and deployment platform aimed at collaborative work environments.

JAVA REPORT INSIDER'S GUIDE TO JAVAONE

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JAVA TO GO!
Catch Exceptions When You Know How to Handle Them
Jonathan Amsterdam
Many Java programmers prefer to catch an exception locally rather than letting it propagate. Writing "throwsIOException" in the header of copyBytes will give one or more compiler errors. If any of these methods declare it, then the compiler will generate messages for their callers, and so on. After a few minutes of this, the programmer sticks in a try-catch statement for a much less robust piece of software.