Achieve Optimal Performance
by Peter Varhol
Enterprise application life cycles require active participation from IT management, which should give credence to response time and scalability when establishing the goals for performance in each phase of development. By setting expectations and providing the requisite measurement and analysis tools, development teams can work toward achieving performance goals.

Choosing Favorites
by the Editors of Java Pro
You've picked your favorite tools, the ones you rely on to get your work done. In our fifth annual Reader's Choice product survey, find out who the finalists were and who took home the trophy. And now let's party.

COLUMN: OBJECT ENTERPRISE
Put Debugging to the Test
by Peter Varhol
Better productivity from developers can streamline enterprises' application-development projects. Take a look at some approaches that employ testing as a debugging tool to ensure rock-solid application delivery.

COLUMN: PRO SHOP
Intercepting Packets on Linux with Java
by Daniel F. Savarese
Combining the advantages of Java and Linux in a software project takes very little effort. Take a look at a small project demonstrating packet interception on the Linux platform that takes advantage of Java's security, garbage collection, APIs, and other features.

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Editor's Note
by Kay Keppler

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