Shankar Itchapurapu

Java is hot. Just nine years old, it has become one of the leading development environments in the world. Millions of programmers and thousands of companies use it, and half of all IT managers expect to deploy J2EE applications this year. But Java's popularity hasn't necessarily made it easy for the growing population of Java code jockeys. Ever-shortening production cycles have kept the heat on programmers, who increasingly work in large teams to meet production milestones. And every day those teams come face-to-face with an immutable law of software development: the more code you write, the more bugs you'll get - bugs that cost time and sap quality and performance from applications. This article looks at performance tuning and optimization of memory usage of a J2EE a... (more)

Effective EJB: Make EJBs Work For You

Java development is at a crossroads. The open standards have done lot of good for the Java platform and language, but they have brought in some problems too. Developers are often drenched in the complexities that surround Java development. Worse yet, these complexities are so overwhelming that the actual business problems take a back seat. The J2EE specification provides a lot of APIs, st... (more)