Bin Liu

As the Internet crawls to even more remote corners of the globe, the internationalization of Web applications exposes a plethora of challenges. As a real-world example, if an airline starts reaching far more remote destinations across international frontiers, a Web application representing the airline's ecommerce will face numerous challenges in terms of internationalizing the ecommerce itself. These challenges result from many causes. For instance, one basic thing that differs from one country to another is the spoken language. Among countries where the same language is spoken, the colloquiality of the language differs. For example, in some parts of the world, the word "baggage" is widely used to represent personal belongings such as suitcases of a traveler. In some othe... (more)

Parallel Business Logic Processing

When independent business components must be executed simultaneously, the parallel processing of application business logic has a direct impact on the performance of the system; however, parallel processing at the application level historically has been challenging to implement. In the case of J2EE applications that rely on the services provided by the application server containers, imple... (more)