(LSteinle) The process of converting the data in an object to XML is called serialization. The reverse of serialization, loading XML into the object, is called deserialization. Shallow serialization converts the public properties and fields into XML while deep serialization converts both public and
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Apply Schematron constraints to XForms documents automatically
(Jan Joseph Kratky, Kevin E. Kelly, Steve Speicher and Keith Wells) Hot on the heels of the release of the second edition of the XForms specification, IBM alphaWorks has released a new round of free tools, including the XML Forms Generator, to accelerate the development of forms that comply to this
Access Granted
(David A. Kelly and David Baum) Organizations traditionally have invested in security technology to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to private information or restricted IT services. Over the past few years, the scope and importance of security technologies in general, and identity man
The Secrets of Materialized Views
Materialized views are a data warehousing/decision support system tool that can increase by many orders of magnitude the speed of queries that access a large number of records. In basic terms, they allow a user to query potentially terabytes of detail data in seconds. They accomplish this by transpa
Customize Your IDE: Ideas for Extending Visual Studio 2005
(Justin Whitney) You can know all the tricks and tips to extending your Visual Studio 2005 IDE and the knowledge won’t do you a bit of good if you don’t know what you want to create. But to know what you want, sometimes it helps to know what’s possible. What have others done? Where in the project li
Localizing Web Applications with ASP.NET 2.0
(Pradeep Shukla) Auto-culture handling can be enabled for each page in ASP.NET 2.0 by including the Culture=”auto” and UICulture=”auto” attributes in the Page directive of each page. UICulture can be considered as the physical UI, fonts, colors etc. Culture affects formatting, for example date forma
Search and map directory trees with ease using the right PHP class
(Melonfire) Most of the time, iterating through nested PHP structures requires you to write a recursive function that travels through the hierarchy in a sequential manner, examining each and every element in it. But recursive functions are complex, messy things and most developers (including myself)
Develop applications using Python and DB2 Express-C
(Bob Gibson) Python is an incredibly powerful, general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, dynamically-typed programming language that is easy to read and understand, and fun to write. To make it really exciting, all we need do is to be able to connect it to an equally powerful, and attractively p
An introduction to Ruby on Rails for DB2 developers
(Edd Dumbill) Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework causing a lot of excitement among Web developers. By supporting agile development techniques and a philosophy of “convention over configuration,” it has enabled many developers to radically reduce the time and pain involved in creating Web
Notification Services and the Service Broker in SQL Server 2005
(Buck Woody) In this chapter, you will examine a targeted approach for data distribution. Using Notification Services, you can trigger specific datagrams to users based on conditions in your database, from notifying someone that a stock price has changed to alerting that a machine has just gone offl