Many apps fail to make full use of the capabilities of the JIT compiler.In this article we investigate some simple tricks to identify issues that may be making your application unfriendly to JIT.

Chuck Phillips reports that the boom in application servers now raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created.

Lee Chuk-Munn shows how a management framework can be used to check on a Java application that is running.

However, there is hardly any mention of Java and assembly language code working together. In an earlier article I showed how assembly language programs can be called from Java applications.

Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) is a next-generation cyber security technology designed to redress some of the weak points of application security. Unlike firewalls or code analysis ...

Despite its current shortcomings, gcc-java shows great promise as the foundation of a completely free Java stack, and it already can be used to build many real-world applications; see the on-line ...

Scaling Your Java EE Applications -- Part 2 Java applications can be scaled vertically (on a single system), or horizontally (across multiple systems). But to do either, you have to understand all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Waratek responded quickly and launched Java Application Security which detects and ...

When you compare Java vs. Python application development in terms of simplicity, conciseness, security and performance, Java comes out on top in every category.

<p>We recently wrote about reinstalling Java to correct problems with various applications including Mail and Safari. While this may be useful for some users, Apple has released a knowledgebase ...