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Debugging, profiling, packaging - whatever you want, WSDD can do it all. IBM's WebSphere Device Developer (WSDD) is a sophisticated development platform for IBM's WebSphere Micro Environment (WME, also known as J9). Based on Eclipse, it's just right for those who like to work with Eclipse. The problems start if you prefer to use some other IDE or you believe in automated, continuous integration. This article will show you how to master using WME without WSDD. WSDD uses Ant build scripts, but effectively hides the implementation of its special tasks for the SmartLinker jxelink and other tools. If you want to build a WSDD project outside of WSDD, you can't rely on automatically generated Ant build files. This makes it hard to build a project from the command line and the... (more)

Better Scaling with New I/O

With J2SE Version 1.4, Java finally has a scalable I/O API. Not that the old API was an absolute failure (Java's tremendous success in the application server market refutes this), but some of the old API's properties led to drastic restrictions. The worst one was the blocking I/O. To write data over a socket, you have to call the write() method of an associated OutputStream. This call ret... (more)