The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as a religious war: On one side, you have the proponents of checked exceptions arguing ...

J2EE application servers provide scalable performance for a wide range of applications. However, the general-purpose nature of J2EE, which aims to address the needs of every enterprise, also limits ...

At the root of the problem is the complexity of the Java language, which remains an issue even though BEA, San Jose, Calif., has developed some brilliant mechanisms to avoid the low-level requirements ...