Syed Aslam

We’ve been debating the merits of a possible IBM-Sun deal for a while now, and even Sun itself seemed to be in the dark as to if it would be a good idea to be bought by IBM. These debates are now all moot: in a surprise move (at least, I didn’t see any speculation [...]

A Prepared Statement forces a SQL statement to be set to the database immediately where it will be precompiled. This means that for subsequent calls, the SQL statement can just run the Prepared Statements’ SQL statement without having to compile it with every call. A Prepared Statement is most useful when using a SQL statement [...]

Java Real-Time System (RTS) 2.0 is Sun’s fully compliant implementation of the industry standard set of extensions for the Java platform. It helps you set process priorities according to importance (this is typically not supported in Java software applications).
If you run a normal Java application under Java RTS 2.0, nothing really changes. You’ll start to [...]