Across the enterprise world, the conversation has shifted from innovation to endurance. Systems built in Java and J2EE ...

Jini is one of Java’s most exciting applications. With dynamic download of behavior, a universal code-execution platform, and simple construction of distributed systems, it promises to bring us to an ...

Growing numbers of retailers are scoping out Java-based point-of-sale (POS) systems as one option to replace their aging cash registers. Several retailers that are either deploying or piloting Java ...

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Modern distributed systems are built on top of a rich set of microservices and cloud APIs in order to break up complex applications into smaller chunks of code. While each service is easier to debug ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...