Today's rapid, enterprise-scale, distributed network development projects need modern methodologies more than ever before.

We finish up our tutorial by treating Client-Side LiveConnect, which allows the Java in an applet and the JavaScript on a Web page to communicate -- in both major browsers.

The components of a four-tier architecture often see data the way the four blind men see the elephant. Here's how to reconcile them.

Any E-Commerce developer knows that today's Web technologies are not perfectly suited for Web-based E-Commerce. HTTP -- the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that defines how the Web works -- has two fundamental features that get in the way of E-Commerce.

Any E-Commerce developer knows that today's Web technologies are not perfectly suited for Web-based E-Commerce. HTTP -- the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that defines how the Web works -- has two fundamental features that get in the way of E-Commerce.

Using Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and Netscape's LiveConnect, you can create the same middle-tier functionality of application servers costing $50,000 or more. Here's how you do it.

With i18n, you can do much more than replace words in English with words in other languages -- even in non-roman character sets.