Which way is up: Internationalizing your application is not just a matter of translating the words and checking with a native speaker that there aren't nuances you may have missed. You should also think about organizing the components on the screen so the flow is more natural. » Read more

How to Handle Permanent Exceptions after EJB Deployment: a Proposal: An permanent failure in an J2EE application can cribble the server or at least drain the system resources but it also makes it very difficult for the administrator to find the source of the problem because there is no talk back by the Bean reporting problems to the server. — Andreas Schaefer

September Java Performance News: The September issue of the Java Performance Newsletter was published. Includes an article on "Timers and audio performance". — Jack Shirazi

Component Orientation in Swing UI
John Zukowski begins his latest Java Tech tip by remarking "One of the often-overlooked aspects of internationalization is component orientation. While English and the Western European languages have letters and words that go left-to-right and top-to-bottom, not all do." In Component Orientation in Swing User Interfaces , John explains the use of the ComponentOrientation class and alternate location choices when using the BorderLayout.

Java for BioInformatics
Traditionally much of the work in Bioinformatics has been done in Perl. As Stephen Montgomery shows in his ONJava article Java for BioInformatics , there are more Java based applications being used in the field. Montgomery shows code examples of working with some of the applications.