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As the J2EE platform has matured, it has opened up the opportunity to deploy commodity servers in networked cluster configurations for scaling of Web services and Web applications at the Web tier. These commodity servers, interconnected through commodity LAN hardware, can provide cost-effective clustering solutions. The last piece of the clustering puzzle is in the software. In this seriesSing Li examines three open source software substrates that can enable high-impact Web tier clustering, beginning with JavaGroups.

Java 6 tries hard to make Java applications easier to integrate in the desktop environment of various platforms. One of such welcome attempts is the new java.awt.Desktop class adapted from JDIC (JDesktop Integration Components).

A core requirement of any non-trivial P2P application is secure communication between peers. While the details of the security depend on how the application will be used and on what it will protect, it's often possible to implement strong, general-purpose security using off-the-shelf technology such as SSL. This article demonstrates how to use SSL (via JSSE) in P2P security.

Topics Covered:

1. Converting Images to BMP/WMBP
2. Pooling Threads to Execute Short Tasks

(These tips were developed using the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition Development Kit 5.0 (JDK 5.0).)

Learn the basics of Tomcat and how to Develop Web Applications with the Tomcat Engine.