Many apps fail to make full use of the capabilities of the JIT compiler.In this article we investigate some simple tricks to identify issues that may be making your application unfriendly to JIT.

You might be a Java purist, but as Microsoft's .Net grows more popular so does the demand to migrate Java or Visual J++ (VJ++) applications to Visual J# or Visual C#. Several existing client ...

Lee Chuk-Munn shows how a management framework can be used to check on a Java application that is running.

<p>We recently wrote about reinstalling Java to correct problems with various applications including Mail and Safari. While this may be useful for some users, Apple has released a knowledgebase ...

When you compare Java vs. Python application development in terms of simplicity, conciseness, security and performance, Java comes out on top in every category.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Waratek responded quickly and launched Java Application Security which detects and ...

Scaling Your Java EE Applications -- Part 2 Java applications can be scaled vertically (on a single system), or horizontally (across multiple systems). But to do either, you have to understand all ...

Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) is a next-generation cyber security technology designed to redress some of the weak points of application security. Unlike firewalls or code analysis ...

A lot of Java applications today can be extended viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. Lee Chuk-Munn shows how.

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.