Coverity's Prevent for C# is a payware static analyzer designed to work with the latest C# language features. The tool provides a low false-positive rate, and it can effectively analyze very large code bases.

Sun Developer Network recently published an interview with Kirk Pepperdine on optimizing the performance of Java applications.

Ethan Nicholas created a CSS engine for Java for the purpose of styling Swing components. A recent article provides a brief introduction to CSS-based Swing styling.

Projects based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA), when done right, can give a company a competitive advantage over its competition. SOA done wrong, however, can cost a company dearly. A recent CIO.com article sheds some light on the key reasons SOA projects fail.

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In a recent blog post, Martin Fowler discusses the relationship between model-driven development and domain-specific languages, and what role each may play in a software project.

In a recent blog post, Ted Neward takes a deeper look at Google's recently open-sourced Protocol Buffers as a data transfer format.

Today Adobe released an early version of its upcoming open-source Flex 4 SDK, "Gumbo," for building rich-client Web applications. Key focus areas of Flex 4 are greater integration of the workflow between developers and designers, and improved developer productivity.

Oracle released EclipseLink 1.0, an open-source, feature-rich persistence provider for enterprise Java applications. In addition to relational databases, EclipseLink also supports file-based and XML data sources, and provides highly customizable object transformation capabilities.

Sun released Update 7 to JDK 6, including the 1.0 version of VisualVM, a JVM monitoring and profiling tool.

The builder pattern aims to simplify the construction of objects with possibly many constructor parameters. However, using a builder to create an object may leave that object in an incomplete state. Rafael de F. Ferreira shows in a recent blog post how to solve that problem with Scala's type system.

Protocol Buffers are Google's general-purpose mechanism to serialize structured data in a language-agnostic way. Although designed for a similar purpose as XML, Protocol Buffers perform 20 to 100 times faster than XML, and also consume much less space. Google today released Protocol Buffers under an open-source license.

Adobe's Scott Petersen has for some time been working on a project that could enable C and C++ code to be securely executed in a browser, inside the sandbox of the open-source Tamarin VM. In a recent blog post, Mozilla's Atul Varma summarizes Petersen's experiment, and what it may mean for Web applications.

Until recently, textual content embedded inside rich-client components, such as Flash files, were not indexed by the major search engines. Adobe announced this week that it has worked with Google to make all Flash files indexable, including Flex application files, and that Yahoo would also soon index Flash content.

In a recent blog post, Intel's Anwar Ghuloum writes that processors containing hundreds, and even thousands, of cores are just a matter of time, and that developers should "program for as many cores as possible, even if it is more cores than are currently in shipping" CPUs.

In his latest IBM developerWorks article, Brian Goetz explains how to correctly use wildcards for generic parameter types.