Parameswaran Seshan

Applications that have high performance as a quality goal would motivate a programmer to design and build them as multithreaded apps. The Java programming environment provides for parallel execution of logic by using threads. However, this is at a lower level and provides limited capability. To make multithreading work successfully in an application, programmers have to handle higher-level concerns like synchronizing the execution of multiple threads, handling exceptions in threads executing in parallel, limiting the number of threads in the runtime environment, and thread pooling. Java programmers need an easy-to-use, standardized, trusted, and efficient library to take care of concurrent programming. The concurrent utility developed by Doug Lea is a very popular and us... (more)

Java Feature — A Generic JMS Listener for Apache Axis 1.x

Unlike the HTTP protocol there's no stable default JMS listener for invoking the Web Services exposed in Apache Axis 1.x using JMS (Java Message Service) as the transport protocol - other than the one provided merely for demo purposes. This article describes a fully working generic JMS listener that can act as a JMS transport receiver handler for Axis and allow service clients to uniquely... (more)