For the week of May 7th:
Top recent JavaWorld.com articles:
From Java EE security to Acegi: The right way to protect your Web applications. Protecting sensitive data and data transportation is a preliminary but critical requirement for application developers. The Internet is a public and insecure infrastructure connecting millions of computers world-wide for data interchange. Any device connected to the Internet faces various types of security threats, such as eavesdropping, masquerading, message tampering, replaying, infiltration, traffic analysis, or denial-of-service. Web applications generally deal with sensitive and valuable data as assets of the application owners. Security programming as part of Web development deserves all efforts.
Reinvigorated Java IDEs change the development landscape: Java IDEs have improved steadily over the last few years. Products from IBM, Borland, and Sun show just how far they’ve come.
What issue tracking system is best for you? A review of Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA. It is an eternal truth that newly written software packages will contain bugs. To track bugs, many organizations still rely on Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, but these tactics are inefficient and error-prone to say the least. A good automated issue-tracking solution should streamline the process of raising, managing and fixing issues.
