The word agent has found its way into a number of technologies. It has been applied to aspects of artificial intelligence research and to constructs developed for improving the experience provided by collaborative online social environments (MUDS, MOOs, and the like). It is a branch on the tree of distributed computing. There are agent development toolkits and agent programming languages.

In a complex distributed computing environment like J2EE, it is very difficult to pinpoint the component that is causing a performance bottleneck. Applications can be profiled by including instrumentation code manually, but this could be cumbersome and time-consuming, and might impact the stability of the application itself. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) technology can be elegantly and

Every time we purchase a cell phone, one of the first things we tend to do is find which games and applications were included in the phone. There is a certain level of excitement in discovering these micro applications. But when you're interested in software development, this excitement level multiplies with the realization that you can also build your own

GlassFish is an open source application server project led by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform.