(Sing Li) The combination of Eclipse, DB2 Express-C, and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition — all free to download, use, and deploy — is an excellent from-prototype-to-production suite for all of your Java and Java enterprise development needs. What might not be obvious is the relative
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LDAP Authentication plug-in
(Chris Eaton) As you may know, in DB2 v8.2 IBM moved to a pluggable authentication model whereby you can plug-in the authentication mechanism you prefer. In that release a Kerberos plug in was shipped with DB2 but other plug-ins could be implemented either from 3rd parties or by building one yoursel
Evaluate XQuery Expressions with Java and SAXON 8
(Anghel Leonard) The following tip shows you how to combine Java and SAXON 8 in order to evaluate XQuery expressions. This application presumes that the XQuery expression is in an external file, called Q.xquery, and the XML file used for interrogation is called XML.xml:
It puts the X in Ajax: How to structure XML for interactive Web apps
(Kris Hadlock) XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a popular choice for Ajax, simply because it is the standard intermediate language that all programming languages are able to share. It is also supported both on the server side and client side, which makes it the most flexible solution. XML is esse
Covering index and prefix indexes
(Peter Zaitsev) I already wrote in the blog as well mentioned in presentation there is often a choice you have to make between having prefix index – which can be significantly smaller in size and having index being covering index, which means query can be executed using only data from the index with
Creating a Menu Using XSLT, XML, and JavaScript
(Haissam Abdul Malak) Extensible Stylesheet language (XSL) is a language used to express style sheets. You use XSL to define how data should be displayed, styled and laid out. It was developed with the need of creating XML based Stylesheet language.
ASP.Net Page Life Cycle
(Hima Bindu Vejella) Many of us know that IIS is a web server and we use it in our .Net application since we need a web server to run a web application. But I wonder as many of us don’t know the internal architecture of IIS. This article is written for beginners to know the architecture of IIS.
ASP.NET Crash: Bad CacheItemRemovedCallback – Part II
(Tess) In August I wrote about how you could cause a nasty high memory situation by using CacheItemRemovedCallbacks improperly, today I got a case where improper use of CacheItemRemovedCallback caused a crash, so I figured I’ll use it to show you how you can use them to bring down your website in se
Dummy data without dummy tables – just a little SQL trick with the TABLE operator
(Lucas Jellema) While writing useless queries for solving exotic challenges, I realized that the use of dummy tables or unions of selects against DUAL for producing a few data-rows is a awkard solution to a problem that has a much more elegant one. Using a database type and the TABLE operator we hav
Build Your Own Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 Cluster on Linux and iSCSI
(Jeffrey Hunter) One of the most efficient ways to become familiar with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g technology is to have access to an actual Oracle RAC 10g cluster. There’s no better way to understand its benefits—including fault tolerance, security, load balancing, and scalability—t