Yakov Fain

JDJ's Enterprise Editor, Yakov Fain (pictured) writes: If you are planning to hit the job market,  you may need to refresh some of the Java basic terms and techniques to prepare yourself for a technical interview. Let me offer you some of the core Java questions that you might expect during the interviews.  For  most questions  I’ve provided only  short  answers to encourage further research.  I have included only  questions for mid (*) and senior level (**) Java developers. These sample questions could also become handy for people who need to interview Java developers (see also ... (more)

Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 2 and Java

A typical Java developer knows that when you need to develop a GUI for a Java application, Swing is the tool. Eclipse SWT also has a number of followers, but the majority of people use Java Swing. For the past 10 years, it was a given that Swing development wouldn't be easy; you have to master working with the event-dispatch thread, GridBaglayout, and the like. Recently, the NetBeans tea... (more)

Clear Toolkit 4: The Road Map

Here’s the roadmap for Clear Toolkit 4 for the year of 2009: Offer data synchronization solution for AIR/BlaseDS applications - March 2009 Enhance Flex UI component to support PDF generation on the client - April 2009 Release documentation on classes from Clear component library (clear.swc) - May 2009. Offer a solution for Flex-based portals - May 2009 Open source most of the components o... (more)

Java Serialization

In lessons 5 and 6 of this series, you've learned how to use some of the Java streams to read or write bytes, characters or numeric data. This lesson is about reading or writing entire Java objects into streams. Let's say your application uses a class that looks like this: class Employee { String lName; String fName; double salary; java.util.Date hireDate; String address; } Now consider th... (more)