The idea of constrained properties in Java is not new. Since JDK 1.1, a legion of JavaBeans developers has used a powerful framework found in the java.beans package to enforce data-validation rules.

As technologies have matured and APIs for Java and other languages have taken more of the burden of low-level coding off your hands (JMS, EJB, and XML are just a few recent examples), business logic ...

According to company officials, with GuardIT for Java, developers are now able to directly harden code from within their IBM Rational Application Developer integrated development environment. "As ...