FOR YEARS NOW, Sun has promised the Java mantra: "Write once, run anywhere." The reality of developing Java applications for small spaces has tarnished that dream. Developing Java applications to run ...

During JavaOne 2001, I looked at several alternatives for working with Java technologies on Compaq’s iPAQ. (See “Putting Java on the Information Appliance” (JavaWorld, June 2001).) Since then, I’ve ...

PDAs sound like the ideal home for database applications. You’d like to carry gobs of information around in your purse or pocket, ready to whip out and reference at a moment’s notice, right? That ...

After the initial hype following its introduction, has the computing world lost its addiction to Java? Not on your life. It's finding niches as an application development environment that affect just ...