Join special guest Jeffrey S. Hammond, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., and Ian Rowlands from ASG, as they discuss some of the options shops have at their disposal for improving consistency and cross platform governance of your application development efforts. 

In this expert handbook, discover the ways in which cloud computing is changing Java mobile app development. Read on for information on cloud security, what to expect from Java in the cloud, and true cloud-based app development. 

Despite its idiosyncrasies and lack of user-friendliness, the Apache Hadoop framework offers real advantages for organizations tackling big data challenges and real-time analytics. Access this e-guide for answers to FAQs for BI professionals seeking to leverage the benefits of this niche technology as part of their big data analytics initiatives. 

ITIL is becoming the next big thing in Information Technology. This paper outlines the origin of ITIL, who controls its contents, who are the biggest users, and why you should care. 

Lean software development and deployment should figure prominently in every organization’s IT strategy. The growing pervasiveness of virtual and cloud environments makes the need even more urgent.  Read this paper to learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lean, lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. 

This paper examines that to build an effective change management framework and achieve high availability numbers for an SaaS application requires maturing IT processes along established best practices and investing in quality change management tools. 

The Blackberry® Java® Development Environment (BlackBerry JDE) is a fully integrated development environment and simulation tool for building Java Micro Edition (Java ME™) applications for Java-based Blackberry® smartphones. 

<p>Access this resource to learn helpful tips on how to develop and program Java so you can bring its advanced capabilities to your organization. Review best practices on how to tackle various components of the platform and uncover the skills you need to become an expert Java developer.</p> 

AppDynamics Lite troubleshoots java performance problems in production environments. It organizes an application into business transactions, helping identify slow, stalled, and failed transactions. The application is free. Download now. 

This white paper offers key tips on how to successfully integrate Java-based applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server with C-based implementations by leveraging Java Native Interfaces (JNI). Discover the benefits of this platform and how it can simplify the process of creating, configuring and invoking shared libraries. 

Generating reports from Java applications has traditionally been a difficult task with heavy coding effort in development and maintenance. Even where graphical tools are provided, users must learn how to use a new and sometimes cumbersome tool. 

Using benchmarks and code samples throughout to anchor the discussion, this paper explores how Quercus - Caucho's Java implementation of PHP - can perform faster than the standard Apache-based PHP both in synthetic benchmarks and real-world applications. The results are quite impressive.