JDK 1.4 has a couple of important enhancements to the Java2D libraries -- the new Print Service API, and the new ImageIO library.

The Print Service API provides fine-grained control over the process of printing. While it's possible to print wi...
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In the first part of this article, Aravind Corera looks at how SOAP Headers can be used to carry out-of-band data in SOAP messages, allowing you to design a cleaner business object model exposed by your web service. He explains why it's better to pas...

In this article, Wilhe York illustrates how he successfully integrated an existing Microsoft infrastructure with non-Microsoft technologies after his company was taken over. Wilhe will show a solution that allowed him to keep an intranet that was alr...

Since the rise of Perl, every computer language suffers from Regular Expression-envy. Well, no more -- JDK 1.4 now comes with a full-featured regex implementation.

This e-doc starts out with a detailed exposition on regular expressions -- what...
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HTTP is the primary backbone of the Web. XML is rapidly becoming the de facto data format. These two technologies can be used together to build web-enabled data exchange applications. In this article, Darshan Singh explores the HTTP data access class...

JDK 1.4 comes complete with a full implmentation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), in the form of the Java Secure Socket Extension, or JSSE. This allows any net-enabled Java application to run in a secure fashion, preventing others from reading da...
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Two of the most powerful features of the .NET Framework are Remoting and Security. Remoting is a mechanism for communicating between distributed objects, and. Security has been worked into almost every aspect of the .NET Framework. Unfortunately, the...