The capabilities of the Internet have been enhanced and extended by using programming languages with HTML. These languages have been responsible for the dynamic and interactive nature of the Net. New languages and language extensions are being developed to increase the usability of the Internet. Here I will look at some of the important languages that have shape the Internet over the years.

Initial newspaper headlines pointed to a Microsoft victory over Sun Microsystems in a US appeals court last week.

Sun hopes a new version of its Java software will lure nonprogrammers by sporting a more Windows-like look and feel.

Dear Carey,

I have two problems: When I try to start my Ameritrade streamer, the streamer console comes up but the applet menu does not appear. I just get the small square box at the top with the red, blue & green boxes within it. The applet menu does not appear. It was working fine, not sure what happened. It uses Java Web Start. I have tried all their suggestions.

2nd, most of the time, when I go to shut Windows down, it goes to where it says Windows is shutting down and then just stays there. I have Windows 98 and Interenet Explorer 6.0

Thanks

When Java was first released is was hailed as a revolution. Many lawsuits and arguments followed, chiefly between Sun and Microsoft. With their C# language, Microsoft have created what Java should have been 6 years ago – but Sun have still failed to get it there.

Question: I am running Win98 and Explorer 6. Recently, I am having a problem with Java. I have not changed any of my setting in IE, but it will not run certain Java pages anymore. I have tried to re-install the latest version of IE 6, but it is still the same. I installed the latest Java plugin, but it is still the same.

Does your Windows PC have issues? Having trouble getting your Windows 98 computers to talk to each other? That new video card driving disagreeing with your system? Carey Holzman can help!

A web server is also called a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server because it uses HTTP to communicate with its clients, which are usually web browsers.

Borland Software Corp. this week will release new tools and other technologies that reinforce the company’s independent position among development platforms.

Save and Restore Java data objects to a compact, robust, and reusable XML form

Now that client-side Java has foundered, why is Microsoft still struggling with Sun over its implementation?

The world of software is ever-growing, and though we all like to stay on top of all the tools available to us, who has the time?

Where has your password been?

Cramming won’t cut it. Certification counts but not more than experience.

This article explains how to write FTP client code in Java using available libraries. It compares an exhaustive list of FTP libraries, presents pros and cons of each library, and helps decision makers choose the most appropriate one for their needs.

Designing maintainable high-performance systems

The new Tomcat 5 server takes filters to a new level of deployment flexibility. Tomcat 5′s support for the upcoming Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications gives filter writers a new way to integrate and deploy these flexible components — tapping directly into the request dispatcher’s operations. In this article, Sing Li takes you on a guided tour of the new enhancement and gives you some hands-on training. See how Tomcat 5 can benefit Web application frameworks and lead ultimately to the design of maintainable high-performance systems.

Web application designers and programmers often face situations where a form submission must be protected against a rupture in the normal control flow sequence. This situation typically occurs when a user clicks more than once on a submit button before the response is sent back or when a client accesses a view by returning to a previously bookmarked page.

MDR-EdO: Welcome to today’s Java Live session on Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. Our guests are computer scientist Marty Hall, and Sun Technical Staff Member Mark Roth. Marty is the author of the books Core Servlets & JavaServer Pages and More Servlets and JavaServer Pages. Mark is the co-lead of the JSP 2.0 specification. This chat was advertised as “new developments in servlet and JSP technologies.” So let’s begin with the basic question — what’s new in these areas?

It’s time to consolidate on what we’ve been discussing in this series about design principles governing the class structure and package structure. In this article, I will present a sample case study in which we will develop a hypothetical application component and try to employ all the design principles we have learned so far, to come up with a reasonable robust design solution.

This is a long and technically complex tutorial lesson. Therefore, I have broken it into six parts. You should be able to finish reading each part in one sitting.

Apple has just released Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.1 for Mac OS X. Mac OS X has shipped with J2SE 1.3.1 installed from the beginning. Now J2SE 1.4.1 is available to all Jaguar (Mac OS X version 10.2) owners by using the software update at Apple’s Java product page. Much of the time porting J2SE 1.4.1 to the Mac has been spent moving the GUI elements from the Carbon framework to the Cocoa framework. This means it is easier for your Java applications to take advantage of Mac OS X specific features when running on the platform and to look and feel more like native applications.