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Everyone has a favorite feature idea or two for adding to the Java language. Should the Java language embrace major new additions, such as closures? Or is that too much messing with a good thing?

Compare Apache Derby and Geronimo open source solutions with the IBM open source based commercial offerings of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and IBM Cloudscape.

Download a free trial version of IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, which provides an easy-to-use console for remote deployment and management of operating systems.

Ambler explains what Agile development means, and look at why it is increasingly relevant and experiencing rapid adoption. He contrasts it with more traditional software development methods and dispels a number of common myths.

This article explains how to configure netgroups on the IBM Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) client (AIX) with Microsoft Active Directory server.

Just when you thought it was going to be an ordinary day, you receive a phone call and hear the worst six words dreaded by most AIX administrators. Which of course is, "Why is the system so slow?" If you have done your homework, the answer to that question is relatively simple.

This article, the first in a five-part series on real-time Java, describes the key challenges to using the Java language to develop systems that meet real-time performance requirements.

This tutorial introduces you to some of the essential concept of modes, shows you some of the powerful text manipulation functions available, and teaches you how to use the built-in search, replace, and spell check facilities of Emacs.

Learn how to use best practices and tools to keep your testing teams aligned with business priorities.

Practical, hands-on exercises teach you how to record automated performance tests, use data-driven techniques to ensure randomization, play-back tests, and evaluate real-time performance reports.

ActionScript 3.0 is a powerful object-oriented programming language that signifies an important step in the evolution of the Flash Player Runtime. The motivation behind ActionScript 3.0 was to create a language ideally suited for rapidly building rich Internet applications. Learn how to Script Adobe movies and applications with the next-generation Flash Player Runtime and Mozilla's Tamarin open source project.

Learn a performance-based approach to sizing infrastructure and successfully olve one of the most risky and costly pieces of the MMOG puzzle.

Are you tired of the boring repetition involved with DOM scripting and Ajax, then take a look at jQuery. jQuery is a JavaScript library that helps simplify your JavaScript and Ajax programming. Unlike similar JavaScript libraries, jQuery has a unique philosophy that allows you to express common complex code succinctly. Learn how to extend jQuery with plug-ins.

Visit developerWorks and try the new WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) that gives you all the tools you need to easily extend your legacy applications to business partners, customers, and employees.

This briefing demonstrates the latest version of IBM Rational Software Delivery tools, the broad range of functionality and their use throughout the entire software development process.

On UNIX systems, each system and end-user task is contained within a process. Learn how to control processes and use a number of commands to peer into your system.

If you're even an occasional XML programmer, and you don't yet use XPath, you have an opportunity to multiply the performance and maintainability of your applications. This article details a few specific examples that demonstrate what a difference query methods can make in even simple XML processing.

IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality is a functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less Web services

Current Web browsers weren't designed to easily and securely get content from multiple sources into one page. Discover how developers have stretched the available tools to fit the task and how doing so has put strain on the resulting applications with respect to security and scalability. Also, learn about several browser improvements being proposed to remedy the situation and how to become part of the conversation.

This technical briefing will take a deep dive into some of the most important, feature rich projects that the Eclipse community is developing.