As I described in an earlier post, Packt Publishing invited me to review the book Java EE 6 Cookbook for Securing, Tuning, and Extending Enterprise Applications. In this post, I provide a review of ...

Coverity is well known in the enterprise and high reliability space that includes avionics and military applications. They provide a wide range of static and system analysis tools that target C and ...

The core driver of most digital transformation is the ability to rapidly innovate and introduce new digital capabilities that present the potential to significantly enhance business agility and ...

Many software developers do not pay enough attention to the shutdown (also referred to as undeploy) of the applications they write. In fact, the most popular shutdown mechanism is to execute Ctl+C or ...

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Java, the popular OS-independent platform and programming language, runs on just about every kind of electronic device imaginable, including computers, cell phones, printers, TVs, DVDs, home security ...

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All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the vulnerabilities ...