Chad Sitler

Dean Guida President, CEO ProtoView Development JDJ: Can you give us an idea of what you have to offer and what you have out on the market? Guida: ProtoView has been in the component market for over 10 years now. We started off with ActiveX components, and about two and a half years ago we got into building Java components for professional developers. Right now we are providing a lot of GUI components, and we just came to market with the JFCSuite, a package of GUI components that create added value for the JDK 1.2 and, as some of us know it, the Swing Tool Set. We found a lot of missing holes in the package. For example, we are geared toward professional businesses so we created some currency components, time, date, and we focus a lot on the richness of creating some very visual effects. We have a very graphical calendar with over a hundred different properties that ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interview with Lee Garrison and Alan Armstrong of KL Group

Lee Garrison Java Product Marketing Manager Alan Armstrong JProbe Product Marketing Manager KL Group JDJ: Alan, give us a little overview of JProbe 2.0. What does it offer? Armstrong: JProbe is a tool to help developers search and destroy performance bottlenecks and memory hogs in their applications. It's a way to basically profile an application and then afterwards - and even during - take a look at the memory usage characteristics of the application and also what parts of the application are taking the most amount of time....It helps you quickly focus on the parts of your applicat... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interview with Mike Merritt of Sybase and Don Roedner of Riverton Software

Mike Merritt Senior Director Sybase JDJ: How is Sybase implementing the Java technology? Merritt: Actually, Sybase is implementing the Java technology in all three tiers. We have Java support in the database, in the middle tier and in the development and client site. I started the back-end move, back toward the client, and in the adaptive server family we actually support Java in the database. We support Java store procedures, which are becoming more prominent across the database vendors. But we also support Java as a data type within tables within the database. This allows you to... (more)

It's Just Getting Better

I spent a week in San Francisco at Sun Microsystem's JavaOne show. Quite an interesting, exciting show! Personally, I spent most of my days there interviewing many of the movers and shakers of the Java industry. This was all very cool, but I missed having my usual interaction with ColdFusion developers. Luckily, on the second day of the show, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeremy Allaire and Paul Colton of Live Software to talk about Allaire's acquisition of Live. Life is funny. It just so happened that the special issue of Java Developer's Journal for the JavaOne show ... (more)

Hitting the Ground Running

ColdFusion is touted as a robust e-commerce tool, and this is the truth, but as we're all seeing within these pages, there's much more than that to ColdFusion. Ben Forta's excellent article on fine-tuning your database cache is a good example of this. We've continued our coverage of ColdFusion 4.0 with an article on developer enhancements by Charles Arehart (there's even a hint or two about Allaire's ColdFusion beta, 4.01!). And Jeremy Allaire has followed up his prophetic editorial in the premier issue with an editorial about new business models on the Web. In order to service... (more)