(Daniel Rubio) With XML serving as a catalyst, Web services have allowed many organizations to expose as well as access many resources that in years past might have been considered difficult to share. In hindsight, the actual process of sharing resources in a distributed fashion is something that ha
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Coordinated deployment in WebSphere Message Broker V6 using the Configuration Manager Proxy API
(Matt Lucas) Previously there were two ways to deploy user-developed resources to the WebSphere Message Broker run time: from the Toolkit or from the command line. The increasing use of Message Broker in the enterprise has created a need for a complex deployment system that spans multiple run times,
Oracle vs. SAP: The new battlegrounds
(Mark Brunelli) Business applications giants Oracle Corp. and SAP AG are gearing up to battle for customers in “hot” markets like healthcare, insurance and financial services, IT industry experts say. (R)
DNDJ Feature — .NET Programming with Open Source Databases
(Richard K. Blum) In the past, using open source databases meant running UNIX (or Linux) servers and open source development environments. Today however, the two most popular open source database packages – MySQL and PostgreSQL – have full featured Windows installations, and can be run on most Windo
PostgreSQL cheat sheet
(Lorenzo Alberton) While there is already a number of cheat sheets for Postgresql available on the web, I couldn’t find one in this format and with the kind of information I wanted, so I wrote one.
The ReportViewer control, a local SSRS 2005 Report, and data from a Web Service
(Justin Saraceno) I ran in to a need to use SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Viewer control in a VB.Net Windows Form project. That sounds easy enough. The catch was the report had to run without the support of the SSRS server (local mode) and the report data had to be returned from a web
Session State Management
(Joydip Kanjilal) ASP.NET, like traditional ASP, provides the facility to track a user’s session using Session State. Web applications are built on Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP being a stateless protocol, each request to the server from the client is understood as an independent request
Oracle Form Personalization, Basic Example
(Joel Asselin) For the reader not yet familiar with Form Personalization, here is some summary information>
XQuery and the power of learning by example
(Jon Udell) If you set out to explore XQuery, the XML query language, you’ll soon encounter a collection of examples, or use-cases, that show how XQuery can query and transform XML data. These scenarios are elaborated in a W3C document that presents a sample data set — about books, authors, prices,
Score optimization goals with SQL performance on DB2 for i5/OS
(Scott L. Forstie and Andrew J. Sloma) Understanding and implementing the best SQL query optimization goal can improve many queries’ response time greatly. DB2 for i5/OS on V5R4 delivers a new way to control query optimization through several popular dynamic SQL interfaces. This article shows how to