Exploiting Microsoft's enterprise application strategy, .NET, should prove a dream for IT managers. The pre-beta version is inherently scalable and easy to build and deploy, saving valuable time and resources. By Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center.

Shows how to use the power of regular expressions to ease text parsing and processing.

Article by Doug Bell explores some low-level optimization techniques in Java and presents a Benchmark applet to measure Java's performance.

By Dr. John Farrell. Concrete suggestions for fixing Java code. From the simple and mindless to the complex and dangerous.

The second article in the two part series looks at advanced strategies for making JSP development manageable such as Object scoping, JSTL, JSP documentation, precompilation and using XHTML with JSPs.

This article in a two part series by Dustin Marx summarizes several best practices that can make your JSP design robust and maintainable.

Developers are moving from full Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, to lightweight frameworks, yet even the lightest lacks the simplicity of RoR. JRuby joins Rails with the power, breadth, and industry acceptance of JVM, Java libraries, and application...

Review of 7 JDBC books by JavaWorld.

By Rawn Shah. Jini and JavaSpaces bring true distributed computing to Java.

A collection of JavaWorld articles on databases.