This article reviews two popular JAX-RS frameworks, Jersey and Apache CXF, and provides some basic examples that illustrate how to build, deploy, and execute RESTful web services.

Java provides all the capabilities required to develop socket-based applications relatively easily—and it hides all the complexity involved.

Looking to start using Spring.NET to provide Dependency Injection in your next project? In this article I will show the performance impact of Spring.NET Dependency Injection and compare it to performing the same functions natively.

Learn how to implement compression for Java EE server responses and test your implementations.

What do you do when a system or application performance problem just can't seem to be fixed?

Caching can greatly improve performance but it can also lull you into a false sense of security. In some cases it can even make the performance worse. If you haven't already, then now is the time to learn the issues and limitations of caching so that you can truly improve performance.

Performance is critical to today's successful applications and web sites. If you design with an awareness of the session state management challenges you can always change your strategies to match your performance needs.

Mule, the open source messaging framework for enterprise integration, requires significant configuration using XML files. Get an introduction to Mule configuration.

Learn how to develop a completely functional JSF application using JBoss Tools for Eclipse. Along the way, you will discover all the Java frameworks and technologies included in JBoss Tools.

Drools, a Java rule engine framework for organizing business logic, allows you transform spaghetti code into readable, verifiable, reusable, configurable, scalable, and flexible code.

If you've looked for a Java position or if you are on the other side and are looking to fill a Java position in your company, then here are a few tips that will come in handy.

Options for returning multiple parameters in Java are limited. Discover a good way to get around this limitation.

Explore an elegant way to streamline the build and configuration processes for enterprise Java projects that can also save you a lot of time.

Discover the practice of continuous integration and several of the most popular tools, including Apache's Continuum, Cruise Control (CC), and Hudson, which effectively implement this concept.

For developers who have to live with an enterprise that has legacy and component architecture-based applications, here is a way to introduce SOA in a manner that is not too disruptive. SOA can be leveraged to preserve business logic investments made within component architecture-based systems while incorporating a better and more standards-based infrastructure.

Does your organization have a variety of ways to develop and maintain customer, partner, and employee websites? Perhaps you should consider how a portal development factory can simplify development through an efficient and consistent set of people, processes, and platforms.

Are you finding it hard to obtain funding to finish building out your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology stack? You may have heard about the Open Source GlassFish Java 5 EE Application Server, but did you know that there is a GlassFish ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Project that integrates the Open ESB Project? See what it can do for you.

Discover the attributes of an effective datacenter and review a plan that can assist you in making the best use of these expensive assets.

Use Java annotations to take the grunt work out of coding.

As an IT professional, it is likely that you have heard portal buzz words including JSR 168 and WSRP. But if you are like many, you may not understand the differences or the benefits of these complementary portal standards.

When disaster strikes, don't leave home without Project Management. Explore seven Project Management rules to help you when you find yourself looking for a magic wand to turn disaster into recovery.

The Eclipse PMD plug-in finds code that isn't up to the standards you define, improving the code's consistency and preventing the avoidable production bugs.

Learn how to check message integrity with message authentication and the Java Cryptography Extension.

Increase your productivity when developing in Eclipse with plug-ins that reduce the number of applications open on your desktop and make those infrequent tasks easier with wizards.

Agile methodologies can deliver more functionality and better quality in less time. When they don't, is it the process, the people, or the project?