DDJ, June 2003
Communications & Networking


FEATURES

Route Control & Streaming Video
by Michael Larson
Route control is an emerging technology that improves the quality of streaming video by letting you select the path of data packets as they leave your video servers.

JXTA & Peer-to-Peer Networks
by Sing Li
JXTA is an open-source development project for creating a P2P substrate that's applicable to any hardware or software platforms.

Securing Wireless Networks
by Micah Silverman
Micah shows how to secure wireless networks as 802.11b, also known as Wi-Fi, using a combination of hardware and software.

Web Scraping Proxy
by Howard P. Katseff
WSP, the web scraping proxy server Howard presents here, is a Perl program that uses the socket library to communicate with the browser client and the server.

Heap Ltd.
by Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher
Evgeniy and Alex examine various existing sorting and searching algorithms, then present their "limited heap," which arguably provides the best tradeoff between speed and memory utilization.


EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

An Embeddable Lightweight XML-RPC Server
by M. Tim Jones
Tim examines the XML-RPC protocol for providing network-based RPCs, then presents a lightweight server for embedded designs.


COLUMNS

Programming Paradigms
by Michael Swaine
Michael feels a sense of release as he takes a look at Apple's OS X implementation of X Windows System Version 11—a network-transparent, client-server graphics display system that is the de facto standard for UNIX systems.

Embedded Space
by Ed Nisley
Software reliability and embedded systems go hand-in-glove.

Programmer's Bookshelf
by Gregory V. Wilson
The books Greg examines this month include Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows, by John Robbins; Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L. Glass; Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing, by Ronald Mak; and Ant: The Definitive Guide, by Jesse Tilly and Eric M. Burke.


FORUM

Editorial
by Jonathan Erickson

Letters
by you

The New Adventures of Verity Stob
by Verity Stob

News & Views
by Shannon Cochran

Of Interest
by Shannon Cochran

Swaine's Flames
by Michael Swaine